Immigrant Ships
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Bark Alice

I, F.S. Dyer Master of the Bark Alice do solemnly,sincerely and truly Swear that the following List or Manifest, subscribed by me and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs of the Collection District of New York, is a full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board of the said Bark Alice at Paysandu from which port said Bark has now arrived and that on said list is truly designated the age, the sex and the occupation of each of said passengers, the part of the vessel occupied by each during the passage,the country to which each belongs and also the country of which it is intended by each to become an inhabitant, and that said list or Manifest truly sets forth the number of said passengers who have died on said voyage, and the names and ages of those who died.

Sworn to this Feby. 9 1878 before me, signed ???, So help me God. Signed: F.S. Dyer

List or Manifest Of all the Passengers taken on board the Bark Alice whereof F.S Dyer is Master, from Paysandu burthen 504 tons.

Columns represent: Names, Age,(years and months)Sex, Occupation, The country to which they severally belong, the country in which they intend to become inhabitants, *Died on the voyage, Part of the vessel occupied by each passenger during the voyage.

    
 
1* MS Noel      40  F  Wife      United States  United States  Cabin
2* Lottie Noel  20  F  ?allee    United States  United States  Cabin
3  Clement Noel 18  M  Children  United States  United States  Cabin
4  Morgan Noel  11  M  Children  United States  United States  Cabin
5  Rob Noel      9  M  Children  United States  United States  Cabin
6* Fred Page    25  M  Farmer    United States  United States  Cabin


Transcriber's Notes

The use of an * indicates an omission or error made by the original recorder.
The use of a ? indicates a word or letters that could not be read due to the 
quality of the original document.

The port recorder's signature is illegible.

The column listing those who died on the voyage has been deleted from this transcription 
as it is void of notation.

Captain Dyer's signature appears again just beneath the passenger listing.

1 This passenger's initials are written on the manifest just as its transcribed, "MS" 
  both capitalized with no punctuation. However it seems likely that they are her initials 
  and not her title as the recorder in his haste simply wrote MS and not M.S. 

2 The notation in the occupation column seems like the original recorder started to write 
  something and had a second thought and wrote over it. Possibly Yallee or Lallee. The "allee" 
  is clear, it's the first letter in the word that's the problem.

6 This passenger's last name could be "Page" or "Puge." The top of the "a" was not entirely 
  closed as an "a" should be. In addition, the tail of the "a" comes off at the bottom and not 
  at the top as it should be if it were intended to be a "u". We believe the recorder in his 
  haste could have intended either letter. Also, the top of the letter "g" is not completely 
  closed either. So it's hard to tell what the original recorder had in mind. 

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 411, List 115.

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