Immigrant Ships
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Bark Sophronia

I, Reuben Newcomb Jr. do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that the following List or Manifest of Passengers, subscribed with my name and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Custom for the District of New York, contains, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a just and true account of all the Passengers received on board the Bark Sophronia whereof I am Master, from Hamburgh. So help me God.
(signed) R. Newcomb Jr.

Sworn to this 13th day Septbr 1843
Before me ??????? DC

List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Bark Sophronia whereof Reuben Newcomb Jr. is Master, from Hamburg burthen 197 14/95 tons.

Columns represent: the Passenger names, age, sex, occupation. The country to which they severally belong is Prussia for all passengers and the country in which they intend to become inhabitants is Wisconsin* for all passengers so those columns were eliminated.

  1  Fredrick    Hopfer       48  male     farmer
  2  Caroline    Hopfer       43  female
  3  Johanna     Hopfer       19  female
  4  Auguste     Hopfer       17  female
  5  Wilhelmine  Hopfer       15  female
  6  August      Hopfer       12  male
  7  Albertine   Hopfer        9  female
  8* Johan       Kruger       28  male     shoe maker
  9* Christiana  Kruger       28  female
 10* Wilhelmina  Kruger        3  female
 11* Ferdinand   Kruger        2  male
 12* Gottfried   Schuler      50  male     tailor
 13* Maria       Schuler      48  female
 14* Wilhelmina  Schuler      19  female
 15* Ferdinand   Schuler      18  male
 16* Johanna     Schuler       6  female
 17* Wilhelm     Schuler       5  male
 18  Gottfried   Wegner       43  male     weaver
 19  Christine   Wegner       43  female
 20  August      Wegner       17  male
 21  Fredrick    Wegner        9  male
 22  Christine   Wegner        7  female
 23  Elisabeth   Wegner        5  female
 24  Wilhelm     Wegner        2  male
 25  Christian   Miltz        61  male     weaver
 26  Dorothea    Miltz        50  female
 27  Maria       Miltz        25  female
 28  Louise      Miltz        20  female 
 29  Christian   Miltz        16  male
 30  Gottlieb    Miltz        14  male
 31  Michael     Miltz         8  male
 32  Otto        Miltz         6  male
 33  Carl        Stieg        42  male     shoe maker
 34  Christine   Stieg        41  female
 35  Ferdinand   Stieg        18  male
 36  Carl        Stieg        16  male
 37  Louise      Stieg        10  female
 38  Wilhelm     Stieg         8  male
 39  Herrmann    Stieg         4  male
 40  Wilhelm     Wegner       27  male     weaver
 41  Dorothy     Wegner       25  female
 42  Carl        Gruendel     32  male     blacksmith
 43  Juliane     Gruendel     22  female
 44  Johan       Dassocab     23  male     farmer
 45  Margarethe  Dassocab     24  female
 46  Georg       Schmidt      31  male     joiner
 47  Wilhelmine  Korpf        20  female
 48  Maria       Korpf        20  female
 49  Jacob       Horschfeldt  19  male     bonnet maker
 50  Isadore     Neumann      19  male     tailor
 51  Markus      Tubert       34  male     merchant
 52  Wilhelm     Kraak        30  male     nail smith
 53  Wilhelm     Burmeister   21  male     tarwer
 54  Hirsch      Ruben        42  male     merchant
 55  Biucca      Nissler      20  male     clerk
 56  Heinrich    Knorr        27  male     glaser
 57  Samson      Kalberg      23  male     merchant
 58  Albert      Steffans     28  male     dress maker
 59* Franz       Muller       34  male     farmer
 60  Carl        Westphal     29  male     harness maker
 61  Wilhelmine  Spann        33  female
 62  Louis       Wegner       32  male
 63  Rudolph     Grossman     21  male     book binder
 

Transcriber's Notes:

* An asterisk indicate additional information in the Transcriber's Notes.

* Most of the passengers went to Wisconsin but many settled in Niagara County, New York.

* The passengers were numbered by the transcriber.

* Names were transcribed as written without regard to spelling.

* No births or deaths were recorded during this voyage.

  8-11  Umlaut u in surname.
  12-17 Umlaut u in surname.
  59    Umlaut u in surname.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 53, List 675.

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