Immigrant Ships
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SS Merrimack

I, Louis F. Timmerman, Master of the S.S. Merrimack, 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 S.S. Merrimack at New York * from which Port the said S.S. Merrimack 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. (Signature) Louis F. Timmerman.

Sworn to this March 23 1868,
Before me. (Signature) W ? C?????y, D.C.

List or Manifest of ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the (blank) whereof (blank) is Master, from (blank), burthen (blank) tons.

Columns represent: given name and surname, age, sex, occupation, the country to which they severally belong, the country of which they intend to become inhabitants, and part of the vessel occupied during the voyage. Since no one died during the voyage, this column is omitted in this transcription.

 
 1  Frederick S. Williams           21  Male  Student     U.S.A.    U.S.A     Cabin
 2  Louis Miller                    25  Male  Merchant    U.S.A.    U.S.A     Cabin
 3  Joseph Corto                    20  Male  Traveller   Italy     Italy     Cabin
 4* George W. McClure               26  Male  U.S. Navy   U.S.A.    U.S.A     Cabin
 5  Henry Scott                     30  Male  Merchant    England   England   Cabin
 6  Pierre Antoin Layaillon         40  Male  Merchant    Brazil    Brazil    Steerage
 7  Frederick Crocker               45  Male  Mariner     U.S.A.    U.S.A     Cabin
 8  Lopes Almirda Jr                23  Male  Student     Brazil    U.S.A.    Cabin 
 9  Hilderbravo Barjona de Miranda  19  Male  Student     Brazil    U.S.A.    Cabin
10* Joao dos Passeo Damasceno       19  Male  Student     Brazil    U.S.A.    Cabin
11* Joao Augusto Carea              49  Male  Merchant    Brazil    U.S.A.    Cabin
12  Fillipo Joaquin da Souza Jr     19  Male  Student     Brazil    U.S.A.    Cabin
13* Jose Heinques Noronha           20  Male  Student     Brazil    U.S.A.    Cabin
14* Joao Antonio Luiz Coelho        20  Male  Student     Brazil    U.S.A.    Cabin
15  William C. Jones                18  Male  Merchant    U.S.A.    U.S.A.    Cabin
16  Philip Gerold                   25  Male  Merchant    Prussia   U.S.A.    Cabin
 

Transcriber's Notes:

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

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

The transcriber numbered the passengers consecutively, even though they are 
not numbered in the original manifest.

The entry "United States" in the citizenship and destination columns is 
shortened to "U.S.A." for formatting reasons. 

*   The port of departure is Rio de Janeiro not New York as is entered on the 
    original in error in the Captain's sworn statement at the top of the manifest.

 4  Passenger's given name and initial appears to be recorded as "George W.", 
    but are listed as "G. M." in Betty Antunes de Oliveira's published transcription 
    from Rio de Janeiro newspapers of Americans' names in inwards and outwards 
    passenger lists between 1865 and 1890 in which this passenger is mentioned 
    as arriving in Rio de Janeiro on 24 Feb aboard the GUAPORE from Southern Brazil.
10-11  There is an accent mark above the "a" in given name "Joao".
13  There is an acute accent mark above the "e" in given name "Jose".
14  There is an accent mark above the "a" in given name "Joao".

Correspondence Note 09/17/2004
In 1981 Betty Antunes de Oliveira published her transcription from Rio de Janeiro 
newspapers of Americans' names in inwards and outwards passenger lists between 1865 
and 1890.  This voyage of MERRIMACK departed from Rio de Janeiro on 25 Feb 1868.  
The Americans listed in the newspaper Correio Mercantil of 27 Feb encompass passengers 
1, 2 and 4 from this manifest of the SS Merrimack.  David Asprey would be happy 
to be a lookup source for Betty's work - she published it privately in very few copies 
and kindly let him have one some years back.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 292, List 206.

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