Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild
Schooner Alexander
S. Bartholemews, West Indies to Baltimore, Maryland
Fourth Quarter 1820
DISTRICT OF BALTIMORE - PORT OF BALTIMORE
There is no sworn statement for this ship.
There is no captain's name listed for this ship. (See Correspondence below)
List of all Passengers Arrived from Foreign Countries in the Port of Baltimore 1 October to 31 December 1820.
Columns represent: Passenger Names, Age, Sex, Occupation, Country to which they belong, Country of which they intend to become inhabitant.
1 A. Thompson 55 male mariner U. States U. States
2 Mrs. Gibney 22 female U. States U. States
3 J. T. Gibney 50 male merchant U. States U. States
4* James 30 male carpenter Ireland U. States
*District and Port of Baltimore
December 31st 1820
Collector's Office
(signed) James H. McCullock
Coll't.
Transcriber's Notes:
* None died on the voyage, therefore the column is omitted.
* Passengers were numbered by the transcriber.
* The Quarterly List of the 4th Quarter of 1820 carried the Collector's Office
statement following the last ship.
? The question mark indicates illegible letters or words on the original
document.
4 The name James could be a given name or a surname.
Correspondence added September 9, 2008 Master's name could be IVES
While doing some research on my family tree, I found the following website: http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/list.html?p_topdoc=1&p_multi=GBNEWS&p_perpage=5 My 4th great grandfather, Capt. Jeremiah Ives, who married Martha Lockhart Mackey (an older sister of the Masonic scholar Albert Galatin Mackey) was apparently one of the Masters of the schooner Alexander. The Alexander is most likely registered out of South Carolina, although I have not been able to confirm this, it would almost make perfect sense. My 4th great uncle (son of Jeremiah and Martha), Edward Rutledge Ives, brought Scottish Rite Masonry from South Carolina to Florida and was Florida's first Sovereign Grand Inspector of the Scottish Rite (what that means exactly, I have no idea. I'm not a member of the Scottish Rite, as of yet). The reason I say this makes perfect sense is that my 4th great grandfather was murdered on his way to court in 1828 in St. Augustine, Florida. From what I can gather, my 4th great grandfather was lost at sea around June 15, 1827. He had to have been rescued, but by whom, and what vessel, is still unknown. At this point in time, I can only assume that it probably had something to do with him being lost at sea (or possibly the loss of the Alexander). I know that prior to the time of his murder, he was authorized by the Federal Government to survey lighthouse locations in and around Cape Florida (which would also make sense since he was a Captain of a ship) on April 26, 1827. What I am looking for is a picture, or better yet, a schematic of the Alexander. I haven't been able to find much regarding the Alexander, nor do I even know where to look. A little bit of my family's history can be found in the Florida Heritage Collection at: http://fulltext.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?idno=SF00000009_0001_000;q1=SF00000009; seq=604;cc=fhp;view=image;size=s;start=1;c=fhp I hope that this may clear things up a little as far as the ship's registry is concerned, and hope that you might be able to assist me in my own search. Thank you, and have a great day. Sincerely, Bill Ives
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M596, Reel 1.
Transcribed by Robert W. Grose
a member of
the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers
Guild
19 December 2003
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