Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Brig Constitution

LIST OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Brig Constitution whereof T Meyer is Master, from Bremen burthen *.

Columns* represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, The Country* to which they severally belong.

 1  T Nubling           22 female              Wurtemburg
 2  M Muller            19 female              Hessen
 3* S Dewitt            22 male   Merchant     Olaenburg 
 4* Gustav Backhouse    22 male   Merchant     Olaenburg
 5  M Backhouse         22 female              
 6* Henry Hubenshall    48 male                Hesln
 7* J Kukenmuth         30 male   Merchant     Hesln
 8* Henry Knoud         28 male   Merchant     Hesln
 9* John Schoffer       20 male   Blacksmith   Bevier
10* Jacob Hauteman      21 male   Hatmaker 
11  Philip Bubler       24 male   Hatmaker     Prussia
12* Peter Hilput        43 male   Smith 
13  Andrews Kohaeler    28 male   Tailor       Baden
14  Valentine Lonich    20 male   Sadler       Prussia
15  Domi Engelkeve      24 male   Laborer      Prussia
16  Bernard Gokelin     18 male   Laborer      Prussia
17  Henry Roue          18 male   Laborer      Prussia
18  George Luke         19 male   Laborer      Prussia
19  Ashton Kempe        20 male   Laborer      Prussia
20  Conrad Wiener       18 male   Laborer      Prussia
21  F A Benjamin        29 male   Musician     Prussia
22  John Henry Feltone  40 male   Musician     Prussia
23* Johannes Fasshauer  28 male   Laborer      Prussia
24* Andrew Knabele      28 male   Laborer      Prussia
25* John Sta?t          33 male   Scool Maker  Wurtemburg
26  John Henry Bicken   22 male   Laborer      Hanover
27  John H Soshen       24 male   Laborer      Hanover
28  Martin Co?der       23 male   Laborer      Hanover
29  John C Hubenshall   28 male   Laborer      Hanover
30* J Wagener           28 male   Laborer      Basen*


Transcriber's Notes:
? indicates a letters that could not be read due to the handwriting 
  of the original writer.
* indicates a comment by the transcriber in the transcriber's notes.
* Burthen: Tonnage of ship was left blank by original writer.
* Columns regarding "The county in which the intend to become 
  inhabitants", and "Died on voyage", were totally blank and so were deleted.
* Country: The original writer sometimes bracketed people to a country, other
  times did not. It appears that when blank, country would probably be that 
  of the person listed above him, but is not verifiable, and is therefore 
  left blank.

Passenger's Notes:
 3- 4 Country is clearly spelled Olaenburg; probably meaning Oldenburg.
 6    In occupation space 'Hessen' is written and crossed out. 
 6- 8 Country is written clearly Hesln; probably Hessen.
 9    Country is written clearly Bevier; probably Bavaria.
12    Surname possibly Helput.
15    Surname possibly Engelker instead; writer adds flourish loops to 
      many words.
23    Surname possibly Fasshaner.
24    Bracketed in with Prussia, but was from actually from Wurtemburg.
25    Surname possibly Stait or Stadt. The d is not closed and lower part
      is possibly dotted; d also seems merged with t. Occupation probably 
      meant as schoolmaster.
26    Original writer often adds loops on end.  This could be Bickens or 
      the s-type mark could be one of these loops.
28    Surname possibly Cosder. Co and der are clear. The questionable letter
      is a narrow loop the size of other small letters, but unlike his other 
      letters, it is standing alone without connecting lines to the o or d.
30    Clearly Basen; probably meant Baden or possibly Basel.

The CONSTITUTION

The CONSTITUTION was a 2-masted, square-rigged brig, built by the shipwright Johann Lange, of Vegesack/Grohn, for the Bremen-New York packet service of Bremen firm of H. H. Meier & Co., and launched on 21 October 1820. Masters, in turn, were Gerd Klockgeter, Jurgen Meyer, Johann Wachter, and J. F. Volckmann. The CONSTITUTION was wrecked sometime in 1833; she was replaced by a 3-masted, square-rigged bark of the same name, launched by the same shipwright for the same owners in November 1833. No picture of this vessel is known to survive. Source: Peter-Michael Pawlik, "Von der Weser in die Walt; Die Geschichte der Segelschiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauweften 1770 bis 1893." Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: kabel, c1993), pp. 164-165, no. 64.

Ancestor of Transcriber - Passenger #24
Andrew Knäble (Andrew Knabele) was born in Oberndorf am der Neckar, 
Wurttemburg, Germany on 10 July 1801, to Michael and Margaretha (Hipp) 
Knable. He came to the United States in 1828 aboard the Brig Constitution, 
arriving in New York. He is next found in Boston; married there to 
Margaretta Lefebre in 1831. They had 13 children: Andrew Heinrich, 
Wilhelm, Charles, Sophia, Mary Jane, Ludwig, Sophira, Maria Margaretta, 
Catherine, Susannah, Philip, Augustus, and Luisa. The children were born 
in New York City, NY, and in Cherry Township, Pennsylvania; proofs of 
these births are only from family records, which also list their baptismal 
sponsors. Andrew’s death record lists him as a "musician" by occupation, 
and family records show him to be a violinist. 

Census records show him as a farmer .  The family is listed in the 
Cherry Township Census records of 1850 and 1860. Andrew moved to 
Minneapolis (St. Anthony’s) in about 1865, soon after his wife died, 
following adult children who had moved there as the railroads opened 
the area up to settlement. Andrew died on the 26 April 1888 in Minneapolis 
and is buried at St. Anthony’s Cemetery.
   
Through internet sites and queries, descendants of  seven of the children 
(Henry, William, Charles, Sophira, Maria Margaretta, Philip, and August) 
have found each other.  We know there are descendants of other children 
out there that we would like to make contact with. Lynn Blazek