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Brig Costa Rica

I, T. W. Peel, Master of the Brig Costa Rica do solemnly sincerely and truly affirm 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 of the said Brig Costa Rica at Aspinwall from which port said Brig Costa Rica 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) T. W. Peel. Sworn to this 21 day of June 1862, Before me ? Callimi??.

List or Manifest of all the passengers taken on board the Brig Costa Rica whereof T. W. Peel is Master, from Aspinwall - N.Y., burthen 242 18/95 tons.

Columns represent: Names, Age (Years/Months), Sex, Occupation, The country to which they severally belong, The country to which they intend to become inhabitants, Died on the voyage, Part of the vessel occupied by each passenger during the voyage.

    
1  William Callender  40  Male  Merchant  United States  United States  Cabin
2  William Jeffries   42  Male  Carpenter United States  United States  Cabin
    

Transcriber's Notes:     

The ? marks indicates letters or words that cannot be read due to the quality 
of the original document.

First name of person on sworn portion could be H; last name could also be 
Callumis? 

No passengers died on voyage so that column has been eliminated.

Correspondence 01/05/03 Captain Peel
I found the following article in the Dec. 8, 1865 NY Times concerning 
T. W. Peel, Master of the Brig Costa Rica.

OFFICIAL
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 1865
Information has been received at this department from Mr. Thomas 
Kirkpatrick, the Consul of the United States at Nassau, of the
death by drowning on the 25th day of October last, at sea, of 
Thomas W. Peel, of Brooklyn, N. Y., master of the brig Costa Rica.
The letter from the Consul at Nassau to Washington is on microfilm 
at NARA, College Park, MD.  It states that "On 31 October the 
American Brig Costa Rica belonging to the Panama Rail Road
Company came in here in distress having during the gale on the 
25 October lost over board Thomas W. Peel the master belonging 
to Brooklyn, NY and Julius Mis??pt seaman of New York."

The Letter of Administration on file at the Surrogate Court in 
Brooklyn, NY lists Jessie Peel as Thomas W. Peel's widow.  Therefore, 
Thomas Peel is my great great grandfather.  Thomas and Jessie
had two children.  Alexander was born about 1859 and Annie was 
born April 1864.  Annie is my great grandmother.  Alexander and 
Annie eventually moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey. Annie married 
John Francis Korkel in 1884 in Elizabeth. They had three daughters, 
Jessie, Charlotte(Karcher), and Florence (Diehl).  Jessie married 
David A. O'Brien in 1909.  They were my grandparents. Alexander 
married Helen Elizabeth Miller in 1882 in Elizabeth, NJ. and they 
had two children, Alexander and Elizabeth.  Helen died in 1891.  
Alexander remarried to Emilie Kuehne in 1892.  They had two
daughters, Annette and Lillie Jessie Sofia.  Judy Buckney (ISTG member)

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 220, List 588.

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