Immigrant Ships
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Schooner Return

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

COPY of Report and List of the Passengers taken on board the schooner Return of Halifax whereof Guy Newcomb is Master, burthen 75 tons and (not filled in)/95ths of a ton, bound from the Port of Cornwallis for Boston.

Columns represent: name, age, sex, occupation, country to which they belong, country which they intend to inhabit.

  1 Wm.             Rousavelt    *  35     male    painter     U. States    U. States
  2 Clarisa         Rousavelt       45     female              U. States    U. States
  3 Charles         Darling         23     male    teamster    U. States    U. States
  4 Carolina        Darling         23     female              U. States    U. States
  5 Carolina        Darling           18m  female              U. States    U. States
  6 Phebe           Morss        *  38     female              U. States    U. States
  7 John C.         West            28     male    carpenter   U. States    U. States
  8 Elizabeth       West            29     female              U. States    U. States
  9 Jane            West              13m  female              U. States    U. States
 10 Eunice H.       Woodworth       26     female              Nova Scotia  U. States
 11 Mary Jane       Saunders        16     female              Nova Scotia  U. States
 12 Moses           Saunders        23     male    blacksmith  U. States    U. States
 13 Guy             Rand            24     male                U. States    U. States
 14 J. H.           Rand            25     male    carpenter   U. States    U. States
 15 James           McGee           22     male    blacksmith  U. States    U. States
 16 Charles         O'Morrea        36     male                Nova Scotia  U. States
 17 John            Strong          21     male    farmer      Nova Scotia  Nova Scotia
 18 George          Eaton           25     male    caulker     Nova Scotia  Nova Scotia
 19 Wm.             Baxter          33     male    carpenter   Nova Scotia  Nova Scotia
 20 Jethro          Kinsman         40     male    farmer      Nova Scotia  Nova Scotia
    
Transcriber's Notes:    
* Probably departed from Cornwallis in Nova Scotia, but manifest did not specify 
  this exactly.
 
  #1-2 these passengers were possibly related to the Presidents Roosevelt and 
       Eleanor Roosevelt, but do not seem to be in their direct lines of ascent.  
       Have checked a number of Roosevelt biographies, which did not mention 
       either William or Clarisa.  "All Roosevelts shared a common ancestor" 
       named Claes Martenszen van Rosenvelt and his wife, Jannetje Samuels 
       Thomas, who emigrated into New Amsterdam in the 1640's.  "By 1800, there 
       were over fifty Roosevelt families.  Some endowed hospitals, others 
       simply amassed ever-larger fortunes.  All worked hard and lived well."  
       Quotes and information from "Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1933" vol. 1, 
       by Blanche Wiesen Cook, published by Viking in 1992.  
       (ISBN: 0-670-80486-X.)

  #6 surname spelled as found. 

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M277, Reel 23.