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Ship Karnak

I, A Brownless Master of the Ship Karnak do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear that the following List or Manifest,subscribed by me, and now delivered by me to the Collector of Customs of the Collection District of New York, is a full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board of the said Ship at Nassau from which port said Ship 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.
(Signed) Alfred Brownless

Sworn to this 31 August 1859
Before me (signature illegible)

List or Manifest OF ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the ???? Karnak whereof (omitted) is Master, from Nassau burthen (omitted) 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, and Space Occupied. No deaths were recorded on the voyage; the Space Occupied for all passengers was recorded as "Cabin"; these columns have been omitted from the transcription.

  1  Mr. James Preston            48  Male    Soldier B        Gt. Britain  Nassau     Citizen*
  2  Mrs. Charlotte Preston       3?  Female  None             Gt. Britain  Nassau     Citizen
  3  Miss Charlotte Preston        6  Female  None             Gt. Britain  Nassau     Citizen
  4  Miss Jessie Preston           3  Female  None             Gt. Britain  Nassau     Citizen
  5  Mrs. Diana Williams          74  Female  Nurse            U. States    U. States  Citizen  
  6* His Ex^y Chas. Jno. Bayley   42  Male    Gov^r of Bahamas Gt. Britain  Nassau     Citizen
  7  Mr. Frederick Chapman        36  Male    Butler           Gt. Britain  Nassau     Citizen
  8  Mr. Geo. Preston             29  Male    Merchant         Gt. Britain  England    Citizen
  9  Mr. Cyrus Hall               40  Male    Ship Master      U. States    U. States  Citizen
 10  Mr. William Cushing          59  Male    Ship Master      U. States    U. States  Citizen
 11  Mr. M. Clare Garsia          20  Male    B. Officer       Gt. Britain  England    Citizen
 12  Master Sam^l E. Howard        8  Male    None             U. States    U. States  Citizen
 13  Mr. Chas. Johnson            35  Male    Seaman           Sweden       U. States


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.

^  The use of a ^ indicates that the letter/letters following are superscripted.

The transcription preserves the original spelling.

Passenger numbers have been added to aid with referencing.

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

The manifest scribe used a Germanic letter resembling 'fs'; to aid in reading, these have been
transcribed to 'ss'.

* The manifest scribe did not identify the country of citizenship.

6 Research indicates that this passenger served as Governor of the Bahamas from 1857-1864.
  His name is spelled variously as Charles John Bayley.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 195, List 874

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