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Brig Andromache

I Elias Fornham 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 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 Brig Andromache whereof I am master from Leith. So help me God. Signd/ Elias Fornham Sworn to, the 7 Feby 1820 Before me, ?*n Kearney DC*

LIST OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Brig Andromache whereof Elias Fornham is master from Leith. Burthen one hundred and fifty five 89/95 tons.

Columns represent: Names; Age (Years); Sex; Occupation; "The country to which they severally belong."*

     
1  William Wallace    33  Male   Attorney    Great Britain 
2* Alex^r H Shaw      21  Male   Gentleman   Great Britain 
3* W^m Duncan         28  Male   Merchant    Great Britain 
4  Morris H Tache     22  Male   Merchant    United States	

Signd/ Elias FornhamTranscriber's Notes:* indicates an error made by the original recorder or is used to call your  attention to additional information in the transcriber's notes.? indicates letters that could not be read, due to quality of original document. ^ Indicates letters are omitted and the following letter is superscripted.All words were spelled as they were originally written.* ?*n Kearney DC* - "?" might be a "J"* "DC" may mean "Deputy Collector".* Three additional columns, "Months" (a sub-heading under "Age"),   "The country in which they intend to become inhabitants." and   "Died on the Voyage.", are not listed above as there were no entries.  Passengers were not numbered.  Numbers added by formatter for ease in researching.2  The "r" in "Alexr" was written as superscript.3  The "m" in "Wm" was written as superscript.

Correspondence added October 12,2010 - Passenger 2, Shaw
I believe the Alexr H Shaw who was passenger on the Andromache may be Alexander Hamilton Shaw, 
son of Dr David Shaw, Surgeon, and Henrietta Campbell of Edinburgh and St Mary’s Jamaica. 
Alexander was their fourth son (and seventh child) and was born 24 Oct 1798, I believe in Jamaica. 

In 1817 he was a witness at his older sister’s (my g-g-g-grandmother’s) wedding in Edinburgh, 
when his stated occupation was merchant. He later returned to Jamaica, whether from New York or 
on another voyage I am not sure.  

In 1838 he took over the family plantation (post-abolition in Jamaica) 
from his mother (his father died in 1805) but by 1851 he was working in Jamaica as a police 
inspector.  He retired in 1867 and died 13th December 1872. I don’t believe he ever married. 
I would be interested to hear from anyone researching any member of this Shaw-Campbell family. 

All the best
Janet Finlay

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 1.

Transcribed by Norman Hommes for the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild 6 May 1999

Reviewed by Mary Beth Arthur a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
19 October 2004