Immigrant Ships
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Schooner Vigilant

I, H. C. Lyhtborn 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 Schr Vigilant whereof I am Master, from Eleuthera. So help me God.
Sworn to this June 23, 1862 Before me (signature unreadable)

List or Manifest af all the passengers taken on board the Schr Vigilant whereof Henry C. Lyhtborn is Master, from Eleuthera burthen 120 tons.

Columns represent:Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, the Country to which they severally belong, the Country in which they intend to become inhabitants

    
1  D. K. ??lden       42     ml     marine        U. States      U. States
2  W. L. Avery        45     ml     lawyer        U. States      U. States
3  Mrs. W. L. Avery   35     fl     wife          U. States      U. States
4  L. B. ? Avery       7     ml     child         U. States      U. States
5  F. H. Thompson     29     ml     artist        U. States      U. States
6  A. C. ??????       25     ml     builder       U. States      U. States
7  G. Esau            37     ml     ?????         U. States      U. States
8  A. Dexter          17     ml     ?????         U. States      U. States
9  S. Duffy           30     mle    hotel ????    Ireland        U. States
                                        
   
Transcriber's Notes:
The use of a ? indicates a word or letters that could not be read, due to quality
 of the original document.
passenger 1: surname could be Welden, first letter looks like a W, and it looks
 like the third initial of passenger 4 which is also hard to identify
passenger 4: third initial could be W, looks similar to first letter of passenger
 1's surname
passenger 6: surname difficult to decipher - first letter could be S or I; letter
 is formed starting lower left to upper right then back to lower left just a
 millimeter away from beginning place, then it  swirls through about the halfway
 point; second letter could be s or g; rest of word looks like mers; could name be
 Agmers? Igmers? Asmers? Ismers?
passengers 7 and 8: not sure of occupation, most likely marine like passenger 1
passenger 9: not sure of occupation, first word is hotel, second word may start
 with M, but could be B; word is four letters long, third letter appears to be l
 (compare to l in hotel);  Hotel M_l_

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 220, List 593