Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Schooner Vicksburg

I, ?. F. Higgins, Master of the Schr Vicksburg, 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 Schr at San Domingo City, from which Port the said Schr 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) ? F Higgins.

Sworn to this March 30 1868,
Before me. (Signature) Re????coop, D.C..

List or Manifest of ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Schr Vicksburg whereof Higgins is Master, from San Domingo City, burthen One Hundred 52 tons.

Columns represent: given name and surname, age, 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 one died during the voyage, this column is omitted in this transcription.

 1  James E Young    28   Male   Miner   United States   United States   Cabin
 2  George Young     21   Male   Miner   United States   United States   Cabin
 3  E Sweet          33   Male   Miner   United States   United States   Cabin
 4  Henry Roberts    33   Male   Miner   United States   United States   Cabin
 5  John Rogers      40   Male   Miner   United States   United States   Steerage
 6* ????? Smith      40   Male   Miner   United States   United States   Steerage
 7  John Smith       22   Male   Miner   United States   United States   Steerage
 8  Henry Haus       30   Male   Miner   United States   United States   Steerage

                                            (Signature)  J F Higgins

Transcriber's Notes:

  The manifest lists the port of departure as "San Domingo", but does not list the 
  name of the country in which this port resides.  A modern atlas lists the following
  towns with a name similar to "San Domingo": 

    Santo Domingo, Cuba
    Santo Domingo, Mexico
    Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
    Santo Domingo, Costa Rica
    Sao Domingo, Brazil
    San Domingos, Portugal

  An older atlas mentions San Domingo Island, West Indies, which is now Haiti.

  An atlas of 1890 lists Santo Domingo as the island shared by Haiti and the 
  Dominican Republic, and Santo Domingo City as a port city and capital of the
  Dominican Republic.  This is the only Santo Domingo in this Atlas and there 
  is no San Domingo listed.

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


 6  Passenger's given name is too faint to decipher or even determine the number
    of letters in the name.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 292, List 243.

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