Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Schooner Essex

I, Samuel Upton, do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear, that the Report and List submitted with my name, and now delivered by me to the collector of the District of Edgartown contains to the best of my knowledge and belief, the names, age, sex and occupation of all the passengers, together with the name of the country to which they severally belong, and that of which they intend to become inhabitants, which were on board the Schooner Essex whereof I am at present Master, at the time of her sailing from the Port of Cayenne*, or which have at any time since been taken on board of said Vessel, and I do likewise swear, that all matters whatsoever in said Report and List expressed are to the best of my knowledge and belief, just and true. So help me God, (signed) Samuel Upton. Sworn before me this 20th day of December 1822 (signed) Thomas Cook, Jr., Coll.

Report and List of passengers taken on board the Schooner Essex of Salem whereof Samuel Upton is Master, burthen One hundred & fourteen tons, bound from the Port of Cayenne for Boston.*

Columns represent: name, age, sex, occupation, country to which they severally belong, country of which they intend to become inhabitants.

    
  
  1 John Kaly       *  50  male    labourer  Ireland  United States
  2 Mary Kaly          18  female            Ireland  United States
  3 Michael Kaly       14  male              Ireland  United States
  4 John Kaly       *   ?  male              Ireland  United States
  5 Thomas Kaly         6  male              Ireland  United States
  6 Richard Murphy     24  male              Ireland  United States
  7 Daniel Ganno?   *  25  male              Ireland  United States
  8 Andrew Brian       23  male              Ireland  United States  
                                        
(Signed) Saml. Upton
    
Transcriber's Notes:     
* This ship was bound for Boston according to the manifest, 
  however it put in at Edgartown.
* There was no indication as to which port of Cayenne this ship had 
  sailed from, though I found 1 in French Guiana, another in Hayti, and 1 in Mass.
* Occupation was listed only for the first passenger.
 #1 surname may have been Kelly or Kiely.
 #4 age was 7 or 9.
 #7 letter in surname is probably r, but could be n.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M575, Reel 2.

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