Immigrant Ships
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Bark Kosmos

I, Joh Wierichs, Master of the Brem Bk. Kosmos, 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 the said Bark at Bremen from which Port the 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. So help me God. (signed) Joh^s Wierichs. Sworn to this 12 Feb'y 1868, before me. (signed) ?????????.

List or Manifest of ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Bremen Bark Kosmos whereof Joh^s Wierichs is Master, from Bremen, burthen 429 tons.

Columns represent: given name and surname, age, sex, occupation, country to which they severally belong, and country of which they intend to become inhabitants. Since every passenger was berthed in "Steerage", and no one died during the voyage, these two columns are omitted in this transcription.

  1  Gustav Weidner       23y4m   Male     Smith       Preuszen       New York  
  2  John Windmuller      17y4m   Male     Merchant    Oldenburg      New York
  3  Adolph Sauermann     37y5m   Male     Painter     Hannover       New York
  4  Gottlieb Horn        24y4m   Male     Labourer    Sachsen        Pennsylvania
  5  Pauline Dietrich     29y5m   Female               Sachsen        Pennsylvania
  6  Fried. Frummer       30y3m   Male     Labourer    Preuszen       Pennsylvania
  7  John Guhring         19y4m   Male     Labourer    Wurtenberg     Connecticut
  8  Fried. Hartmann      21y2m   Male     Labourer    Preuszen       Wisconsin
  9  Friedrich Muller     24y3m   Male     Labourer    Waldech        Wisconsin
 10  Fritz Besse          36y9m   Male     Farmer      Waldech        Wisconsin
 11  Franz Hahn           27y4m   Male     Butcher     Baiern         New York
 12  Karl Kugart          21y3m   Male     Labourer    Preuszen       New York
 13* Joseph Piehnitze     49y8m   Male     Labourer    Bohmen         St. Louis
 14* Maria Piehnitze      47y4m   Female               Bohmen         St. Louis
 15* Wenzel Piehnitze     21y2m   Male     Labourer    Bohmen         St. Louis
 16* Anna Piehnitze       14y4m   Female               Bohmen         St. Louis
 17* Antonie Piehnitze     9y3m   Female               Bohmen         St. Louis
 18* Barbara Piehnitze     7y2m   Female               Bohmen         St. Louis
 19* Joseph Piehnitze      4y1m   Male                 Bohmen         St. Louis
 20* Franz Piehnitze       0y9m   Male                 Bohmen         St.Louis                                                   
 21  Joseph Kaiser        18y3m   Male     Shoemaker   Baden          New York
 22  William Parthy       50y4m   Male     Labourer    Preuszen       New York
 23* William Wittich      20y3m   Male     Merchant    United States  Batimore    
                                                   

Transcriber's Notes:

  An asterisk (*) indicates either difficulty in deciphering the handwriting of the 
  manifest or something in the Transcriber Notes to which the reader should refer.

  A question mark (?) indicates a letter or a number that can not be transcribed 
  definitely.

  A caret (^) indicates letters are omitted and the following letter is superscripted.


 13-20  Surname appears to be either "Piehnitze" or "Puhnitze".
 23     Distination is written as "Batimore", likely intending "Baltimore"
 
   

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 291, List 99.

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