Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Steamship Mississippi

I, Geo. B. Slocum, Master of the Steamship "Mississippi", 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 Steamship "Mississippi" at Rio Janeiro, Pernambuco, Para, St. Thomas, from which Ports the said Steamship "Mississippi" 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) Geo B Slocum.
Sworn to this 26 Feb'y 1868, Before me. (Signature) ????????, D.C..

List or Manifest of ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Steamship "Mississippi" whereof Geo. B. Slocum is Master, from Rio de Janeiro with Ports, burthen Nineteen hundred sixty-eight (1968) tons.

Columns represent: given name and surname, sex, occupation, the country to which they severally belong, the country in which they intend to become inhabitants, and the part of the vessel occupied during the voyage. Since no entries are recorded for passengers' Ages, and no one died during the voyage, these two columns are omitted in this transcription.

  

  1  Sarah E. Monroe         Female   Lady       U. States   U. States   First Cabin
  2  Beatrice MacKay         Female   Lady       U. States   U. States   First Cabin
  3  Sarah D. Caldfield      Female   Lady       U. States   U. States   First Cabin
  4  Blanche MacKay          Female   Lady       U. States   U. States   First Cabin
  5  Mary Nugent             Female   Lady       U. States   U. States   First Cabin
  6  John S. Wright Jr       Male     Sailor     U. States   U. States   First Cabin
  7  Jacob Barron            Male     Sailor     U. States   U. States   First Cabin
  8  Frederick Katz          Male     Merchant   Brazil      Brazil      First Cabin
  9* William H. We???        Male     Sailor     U. States   U. States   First Cabin
 10  Augustus A.G. Estrella  Male     Merchant   U. States   U. States   First Cabin
 11  Henry Ver Baas          Male     Merchant   U. States   U. States   Steerage
 12  Henerique Ver Baas      Female   Lady       U. States   U. States   Steerage              
 13* Henry Hartling          Male     Sailor     U. States   U. States   First Cabin
 14* Joakin Rob????          Male     Merchant   U. States   U. States   First Cabin
 15  William Andrews         Male     Sailor     U. States   U. States   Steerage
 16  Peter Burns             Male     Sailor     U. States   U. States   Steerage
 17  Thomas Ward             Male     Sailor     U. States   U. States   Steerage
 18  Charles Smith           Male     Sailor     U. States   U. States   Steerage
 19  Joseph Stephenson       Male     Sailor     U. States   U. States   Steerage
 20  Henry Howe              Male     Sailor     U. States   U. States   Steerage
 21  Michael Jordan          Male     Sailor     U. States   U. States   Steerage


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 transcribers numbered the passengers consecutively 1-21, even though they are 
  not numbered in the original manifest.  


  9  Last half of surname is overwritten by the tail of letter from the passenger 
     above making deciphering difficult and uncertain.  Surname is possibly "Welit"
     or even "Webb".
 13  Surname is possibly "Hartling" or "Hortling".
 14  Last half of surname is difficult to decipher due to recorder's scrawl and a 
     small ink blot, but is possibly "Roblieu", "Robbes", or something similar.     

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 291, List 137.

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