Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Schooner Potomac

There was no captain's sworn statement with this list.

LIST OF PASSENGERS taken on board the Schooner Potomac of Alexandria, D. C., at Halifax, bound for Alexandria.*

Columns represent: name, age, sex, occupation, country to which they belong, country of which they intend to become inhabitants. All the passengers intended to become inhabitants of the United States, so that column will be eliminated here.

       
  1 Timothy Culnane            48  male    mason      Ireland    United States
  2 Nell Culnana               38  female             Ireland
  3 Catharine Culnana          14  female             Ireland
  4 Partrick Culnana           16  male    laborer    Ireland
  5 James Culnana              12  male    laborer    Ireland
  6 Denis Culnana               9  male    laborer    Ireland
  7 Partrick Hamilton          21  male    laborer    Ireland
  8 James Dee                  22  male    laborer    Ireland
  9 Lawrence Brinnan           40  male    laborer    Ireland
 10 Margaret Brinnan           35  female  laborer    Ireland
 11 Timothy Murphy             35  male    laborer    Ireland
 12 Mary Murphy                35  female  laborer    Ireland
 13 Catharine Murphy        *   ?  female  laborer    Ireland
 14 Nora Murphy                 5  female  laborer    Ireland
 15 John Murphy                 2  male    laborer    Ireland
 16 William ?onahoe         *  30  male    laborer    Ireland
 17 Edmund Roach               28  male    laborer    Ireland
 18 Catharine Roach            28  female  laborer    Ireland
 19 Denis Donaven              24  male    laborer    Ireland
 20 James O'Brian              24  male    laborer    Ireland
 21 Nicholas ?onald         *  48  male    laborer    Ireland
 22 John Blakely               28  male    laborer    Ireland
 23 Jane Blakely               19  female  laborer    Ireland
 24 Partrick Lary           *  25  male    laborer    Ireland
 25 Michael Lynch              24  male               Ireland
 26 Ellen Lynch                23  female             Ireland
 27 Patrick McDarmot           25  male               Ireland
 28 Daniel Farrel              33  male               Ireland
 29 Catherine Michavery     *  21  female             Ireland
 30 Thomas Michaivery           6  male               Ireland 
 31 Thomas Murphy              20  male               Ireland
 32 Henry Sullivan             24  male    carpenter  Ireland
 33 Partrick Handerman      *  35  male    carpenter  Germany
 34 Anthony Handerman          15  male    carpenter  Germany
 35 Rasunna Sanger          *  50  male    carpenter  Germany
 36 George Sanger              26  male    farmer     Germany
 37 Ellen Sanger               19  female  laborer    Germany
 38 David Sanger               11  male    laborer    Germany
 39 Catherine Sanger            8  female  laborer    Germany
 40 Taylor Snider           *  21  male    tailor     Germany
 41 Thomas Hannan              32  male    laborer    Ireland
 42 Eliza Hannan                5  female  laborer    Ireland
 43 Thomas Mahar               21  male    mason      Ireland
 44 Bridgett Obrien            21  female             Ireland
 45 Bridgett Roach              2  female             Ireland
 46 John Blakely              6mo  male               Ireland
 47 Jane Hannan                 2  female             Ireland
 48 Ellen Calnana              10  female             Ireland
 49 Nancy Calnana               3  female             Ireland
 50 Timothy Calnana             1  male               Ireland
 51 Betsey Calnana              4  female             Ireland
 52 Susan Roach                 1  female             Ireland
 53 Francis Dempley            25  female             Ireland
                                        
(Signed) Hasa Bears, Jun.

Collector's Office
Edgartown 21st September 
Subscribed and sworn this day
(Signed) John P. Norton, Collector
   
Transcriber's Notes:     
* Was apparently bound for Alexandria, Virginia, but landed 
  at Edgartown.  Probably from Halifax in Nova Scotia, but was 
  not stated as such on original.  Possibly the date is not 
  the date of arrival but the end of the quarter in which 
  this ship arrived.
* #13 age probably 8.
* #16 probably Donahoe, but D looks unfinished.
* #21 name looks like Conald, perhaps for Connel or similar name.
* #24 Lary probably Leary.
* #29-30 Michavery and Michaivery probably McAvery or McGivery, or other 
  possibilities.
* #33 unusual first name for someone from Germany.  Perhaps a mistake on the 
  original list.
* #34 first name looks like Rosanna but was marked male.
* #39 first name written Taylor, which was probably not his real first name; perhaps 
  he was being called by his occupation.

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

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