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Brig Seraph
Antigua* to New Haven, Connecticut
11 July 1832
DISTRICT OF NEW HAVEN – PORT OF NEW HAVEN
I, John E. B?ch??*, do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear, that
the above List, subscribed with my name, and now delivered by me to the
Collector of the District of New Haven, contains, to the best of my knowledge
and belief, a just and true account of all the Passengers which were on board
said Brig at the time of her sailing from the Port of Antigua. So help me GOD.
(Signed) Jno. E. B?ch??. Sworn to, before me, this 11th day of July 1832,
(signed) Nathaniel R. Clark, Dy. Coll.
LIST of all the PASSENGERS taken on board the Brig Seraph of New
Haven in any Foreign Port or Place.
Columns represent: name, age, sex, occupation, country to which
they belong, country of which they intend to become inhabitants.
1 Rev. John ?eys * 33 male clergyman Danish West Indies Danish W. Is.
2 John ?. Kanky * 32 male Consul of U. S. United States United States
3 William Byam 50 male planter England British W. Indies
4 John Bennett 28 male merchant England British W. Indies
5 Owen P?ll * 50 male planter British West Indies British W. Indies
6 John S. Scholar 52 male mechanic British West Indies British W. Indies
7 John McCoy 26 male merchant British West Indies British W. Indies
8 John A. Wood 45 male merchant British West Indies British W. Indies
9 Thomas McAlpi?? * 34 male merchant British West Indies British W. Indies
10 Richard Musgrave 44 male attorney at law United States United States
11 Christopher Musgrave 14 male British West Indies United States
12 Allicia Musgrave * 12 male British West Indies United States
13 Richard Musgrave Jr. 10 male British West Indies United States
14 Jane Fa??cotte * 20 female servant British West Indies United States
15 Peter Riley 45 male servant British West Indies United States
16 Mary Musgrave 42 female British West Indies United States
17 Mary Bennett 22 female British West Indies United States
Transcriber's Notes:
* Probably sailed from Antigua in the Caribbean.
* Captain's surname could be Baches or Beeches or Beecher.
#1 surname possibly Jeys or Teys or Seys or Feys, or Jays perhaps.
#2 note in column for deaths: "J. H. Kanky died on the passage. Jumped overboard."
His middle initial could be W, or possibly H.
#5 surname could be Pell or Pitt.
#9 surname looks like McAlpine.
#12 marked male on original.
#14 surname could be Faucotte or Fancotte or Faricotte.
Correspondence 7/20/00
#1 My direct ancestor was Rev. John Seys who was born 30 March 1799
in Santa Croix, West Indies, to Jacobus SEYS and Catherine RUNNELS.
He married in 1821 Ann OSBORN, daughter of John OSBORN and
Mary Beaks LAVEROCK. In 1821 he became a member of the Wesleyan
Methodist Church in St. Eustatius.
Rev. John became a missionary to the slaves, and was thus disinherited.
He and Ann traveled to and from Africa several times as missionaries,
and came to the United States in 1829 as missionaries to the Oneida
Indians for the Oneida Conference in New York.
In 1834 he was sent to Liberia, Africa as a missionary. In 1866, he
returned to the U. S., and took over the school for black children at
Nashville, TN. The same year, President Johnson requested that he return
to Africa as U. S. Consul and Minister Resident to the Republic of Liberia.
During their marriage, John and Ann Seys had a large family of which many
of the children died young and had to be buried on foreign soils. One died
at sea and had to be thrown overboard after the captain refused to return
to land, even after being offered a large sum of money to do so. Rev. John
moved his family to Springfield, Ohio, where he died 09 February 1872.
Ann died 01 August 1881 in Springfield, Ohio.
I have a lot of information on the SEYS line and would gladly share it.
Hester Wilson
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M575, Reel 5.
Contributed and Transcribed by Mary Koelzer a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
15 November 1999
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