Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Brig Fairfield

I, Joseph J Smith do solemly, 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 *Bg Fairfield whereof I am Master, from Port au Prince (signed) Joseph J Smith

Sworn to the 9 January 1843 before me, M. L. (unable to decipher signature)

List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the *Bg Fairfield whereof Smith is Master, from Port au Prince burthen 157 1/2 tons.

Columns represent: name, age in years, sex, occupation, country to which they severally belong, country to which they intend to become inhabitants, died on the voyage.

1  John   Daly      31  Doctor    U States   U States
2* W^m    Moffat    40  Mercht    U States
3* John ? Cestai??  25  labourer  France
4* John   Daro???   25  labourer  France
5* Peter  Poula??   21  labourer  France

(signed) Joseph J Smith


Transcriber's notes:

*  The use of an asterisk (*) indicates an error or omission made 
   by the original recorder.
?  The use of a ? indicates letters or a word that cannot be read
   due to the quality of the original document.
*  There are not enough examples of the handwriting to be positive
   of the questionable letters.
*  Bg is abbreviation for Brig
*  All the names above were written given name first followed by
   surname. It appears that passenger #3 is the only passenger
   with a middle initial.
*  The only entry in the column for the country in which they
   intended to become inhabitants was for passenger #1. There
   were no ditto marks or other marks in this column for the
   remaining 4 passengers. The transcriber believes all 5
   passengers intended to become inhabitants of the United States.
*  There are no entries under the "Sex" or "Died on the voyage"
   columns, therefore, they were eliminated.

2  W^m is a probable abbreviation for William, although it could
   be Willem or Willhelm. Moffat's occupation Mercht believed to
   be Merchant.
3  ? Cestai?? The first letter appears to be a middle initial U
   or N since it is separated from the following capital C by a
   space identically to the way the original recorder entered
   the U States for the destination. The form of it differs from
   the sweep at the start of the letter from passenger #2's M in
   Moffat. The last 2 letters follow a definite ai and ripple 
   like an r and n. Possibly Cestairn.
4  Daro??? the first letter appears to be an n, as it has the
   same rise and fall and length as every n in the preceding
   names. The second letter rises above the preceding letters
   then firmly down to the bottom of the preceding letters could
   be an l or uncrossed t, the last letter could be an l with a
   bold florish or an e possibly Daronte, Daronle, Daroule,
   Daroull, Daroute.
5  Poula??, first letter appears to be a closed letter extending
   below the line like  g or y, second letter could be just an
   elegant tail to the preceding letter, or could be an e, 
   Poulage, Poulay, Poulaye.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 51.

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