Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Washington

I, GW Floyd, do solemnly, sincerely and truly m??? that the following List or Manifest of Passengers, subscribed with my name, and now delivered by me to the Collector of Customs 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 Steam Ship Washington whereof I am Master, from Bremen.
So help me God.
Geo. W. Floyd

Sworn to this 8 Jany 1851*
Before me ??????*

List or Manifest OF ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the U.S.Mail Steam Ship "Washington" whereof George W. Floyd is Master, from Bremen, via Southampton, burthen Sixteen Hundred forty 71/95 tons.

Columns represent: Name*, Age, Sex, Occupation, the country to which they severally belong, the country to which they intend to become inhabitants, died on the Voyage. The destination for all passengers was the United States and there were no deaths on this voyages, therefore these two columns have been eliminated.

 1  H.      Schroder     20y 8m    Male    Merchant   Germany  
 2  G.      Wasch        20y 5m    Male    Merchant   Germany 
 3  F.      Ulrichs      20y 11m   Male    Merchant   Germany 
 4  T.      Doding       20y 4m    Male    Merchant   Germany 
 5  H.      Caesar       20y 3m    Male    Merchant   Germany
 6  M.      Bachman      21y 8m    Male    Merchant   Germany
 7  H.      Geyer        20y 6m    Male    Merchant   Germany 
 8  M.      Papendieck   21y 10m   Male    Merchant   Germany 
 9  C.      Borsdoff     30y 7m    Male    Merchant   United States 
10  E.      Meyer        35y 1mo   Male    Merchant   Germany 
11  P.      Meyer        11y 9mo   Female  Child      Germany 
12  F.      Shuller      24y 7mo   Male    Merchant   United States 
13  H.  C.  Barbier      21y 2mo   Male    Gentleman  United States 
14  C.      Berge        18y 7mo   Male    Musician   Germany 
15  F.      Fromler      33y 9m    Male    Merchant   Germany 
16  L.      Tobias       33y 4m    Male    Merchant   Germany 
17  F.      Rusch        20y 2m    Female  Lady       Germany 
18  W.      Calbert      38y 11m   Male    Merchant   Germany 
19  M.      Calbert      20y 7m    Female  Lady       Germany 
20  C.      Huttesoll    28y 4m    Male    Merchant   Germany 
21* B.      We?ar        36y 7m    Male    Mechan?c   Germany 
22  F.      Shievers     27y 4m    Male    Merchant   Germany 
23  E.      Graving      47y 6m    Male    Gentleman  Germany 
24  G.      Noakes       45y 8m    Male    Gentleman  Great Britain 
25  G.      Noakes       19y 4m    Male    Gentleman  Great Britain 
26  R.  E.  King         19y 1m    Male    Gentleman  Great Britain
27  S.      Houghton     46y 9m    Male    Gentleman  United States 
28  M.      Houghton     45y 6m    Female  Lady       United States 
29* L.      Ba?tte?      36y 5m    Female  Lady       United States 
30  W.      Rochenderf   28y 3m    Male    Lieutenant United States 
31  W.  E.  Tucker       48y 2m    Male    Artist     United States 
32  C.  T.  Carpenter    25y 4m    Male    Merchant   United States 
33  M.      Millard      45y 5m    Male    Merchant   France 
34  L.      Guillard     35y 4m    Female  Lady       France 
35  W.  C.  Seammele     30y 7m    Male    Gentleman  Great Britain 
36  A.      Seammele     25y 11m   Female  Lady       Great Britain 
37  C.      Marvin       48y 5m    Male    Gentleman  United States 
38  T.  B.  Davies       33y 10m   Male    Gentleman  United States 
39  W.      Chard        45y 8m    Male    Merchant   United States 
40  W.      Howard       43y 6m    Male    Merchant   Great Britain 
41  M.      Heart        60y 8m    Female  Lady       Great Britain 
42  C.      Heart        30y 1m    Female  Lady       Great Britain 
43  T.      Guerin       28y 3m    Male    Merchant   France 
44  B.      Trowbridge   35y 7m    Male    Marines    United States 
45  E.      Thorn        36y 2m    Female  Lady       United States 

Signed: Geo. W. Floyd


Transcriber's Notes:

* An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder
  not the transcriber or is used to call your attention to additional
  information in the Transcriber's Notes below.  

? The use of a ? indicates a word or letters that could not be read due
  to quality of the original document.

Most passengers were listed with First Initial and Last Name;
 several listed with First and Middle Initial and Last Name.

All ditto marks on the original manifest have been replaced with the
 actual words indicated.

Sworn statement of Captain Floyd: word handwritten and illegible

Date could be 1881, but is on the 1851 NARA Reel.

Witness signature illegible


21  Middle letter of last name illegible: could be "y" or "z": Weyar or Wezar.
    Seventh letter of occupation is missing; occupation is probably Mechanic.
29  Third and last letters of last name illegible;  Ba?tteu or Ba?ttew

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 95, List 31.

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