Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Ship Howard

I, ?.* H. Holdrige do solemnly, sincerely and truly Swear that the following List or Manifest of Passengers, subscribed with my name, and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs for the District of New-York, contains to the best of my knowledge and belief a just and true account of all the Passengers received on board the Ship Howard whereof I am master from Havre. So help me God. Signd/ ?. H. Holdrige. Sworn to, the 14th May 1825 Before me, Mo??????? DC*

LIST OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Ship Howard whereof ?. H. Holdrige is master from Havre. Burthen 366 ?*/95 tons.

Columns represent: Names; Age (Years); Sex; Occupation; "The country to which they severally belong."*

    
 1 Mrs L Rudyard         42  female  none       new Brunswick  United States
 2 Miss Emma Rudyard     20                                    United States
 3 Miss Harriet Rudyard  16                                    United States
 4 Charles Behr          26  male    merchant   Switzerland    United States
 5 Frederick ?ahl*       23                                    United States
 6 Noal Yon              41                     Paris          United States
 7 Joseph Ardiera*       33          merchant   Spain          United States
 8 H Devenfort           24          gentleman  Boston         United States
 9 W ?yack*              30                     new york       United States
10 Charles Laviolette    30          upholster  France         United States
11 J B Laviolette        20                                    United States
12 L Laviolette          18          Tanter*                   United States
13 J ? Adams*            28                                    United States
14 J Bachler             40          farmer     Switzerland    United States
15 C Shaffer             28          Cooper     Switzerland    United States
16 Mrs C Shaffer         40          none       Switzerland    United States
17 C Shaffer             10                     Switzerland    United States

Signd/ ?. H. Holdrige
    
Transcriber's Notes:
All words were spelled as they were originally written.
* The first initial in the Master's name was unreadable.
* The witness' (the deputy collector) name was largely unreadable. 
  I'm even unsure about the number of letters
* The numerator of the tonnage fraction was unreadable.
* Three additional columns, "Months" (a sub-heading under "Age"), "The 
  country in which they intend to become inhabitants." and "Died on the 
  Voyage.", are not listed above as there were no entries.
* Passengers #1-17: The blank spaces in the above list in the columns 
  "gender", "occupation" and "country to which they belong" represent 
  spaces in the original manifest which had a horizontal line drawn 
  through them.  It was unclear when this notation was meant to indicate 
  a repeat of an earlier entry. 
* Passenger #5: The first letter of his last name was unclear. It may be 
a "K" or an "R".
* Passenger #7: The first letter of his last name might also be an "O".
* Passenger #9: The first letter of his last name was unclear. It may be 
  an "F" or a "T".
* Passenger #12: The first letter of his occupation may be an "F".  I'm 
  not sure what occupation this would be.
* Passenger #13: The initial of his middle name was unclear.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 7.

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