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Ship Silvanus Jenkins

I Josiah Macy do solemnly, sincerely and truly affirm 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 Ship Silvanus Jenkins whereof I am Master, from Liverpool ["So help me God." has been lined out.] [signed] Josiah Macy

Affirmed ["Sworn" has been lined out.] to, the 30 November 1827 Before me, ??????? DC

LIST OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Ship Silvanus Jenkins whereof Josiah Macy is Master, from Liverpool Burthen 547 /2^8 Tons.

Columns represent: NAMES; AGE [subheaded:] Years, Months*; SEX; OCCUPATION; The Country to which they severally belong; The Country to which they intend to become inhabitants; Died on the Voyage*.

 1* Albert Gallatin    66  male    Merchant   U States   U States
 2* M^rs Gallatin      58  female             U States   U States
 3  Miss Gallatin      18  female             U States   U States
 4* Joshua Bates       37  male    Merchant   U States   U States
 5  Lucretia Bates     33
 6  W^m R May Bates    12  male    Merchant   U States   U States
 7  Eliza A. S. Bates   6
 8  Maria Weston       18
 9* Edw^d Menl?e       27  male    Merchant   England    England
10* S S  Gear          36  male    Merchant   U States   U S
11* Pietro Muscheitto  33  male    Merchant   Italy      Italy
12* Agamemnan Binda    37  male    Merchant   Italy      Italy
13* Dunbar Paul        36  male    Merchant   U States   U States
14  Edw^d Klugkeit     24  male    Merchant   Germany    U States
15* Jno D Drohs        25  male    Merchant   U S        U S
16* S A Labouchere     20  male               France     France
17  Thomas Burnside    75  male               U S        U S
18* Mary Mullan        2?          Servants   England    England
19* W^m Lock           28          Servants   England    England
20* Eliza Swan         23          Servants   England    England
          [signed] Josiah Macy


Transcriber's notes:

*  The use of an * indicates an omission or error made by the
   original recorder; or a clarification by the transcriber.

?  The use of a ? indicates a letter that could not be 
   deciphered, due to the quality of the original document.

^  The use of a caret ^ indicates the following letters in 
   that word are superscripted.

*  The column "Died on the Voyage" and the sub-column "Months"
   have no entries; therefore these columns are omitted.

*  Collector of Customs (in the sworn statement): Name is 
   indecipherable. It may end with the abbreviation "DC" which
   probably stands for "Deputy Collector"

*  Passengers #17 through 20 are bracketed as "Steerage"

Passenger # 9 - Surname could be Menlae, Menlive, Menlove
Passenger #11 - Surname may be Muscheitti
Passenger #12 - Given name may or may not end in "n"; 
                surname may be Biuda
Passenger #13 - Given name may be Danbar or Dembar
Passenger #18 - Age is probably 21; surname may be Mullar
Passenger #19 - Surname may be Leck, Loch, Lech
Passenger #18-20 - Bracketed in Occupation as "Servants"

Passenger #1: In 1826 Albert Gallatin was brought "out of retirement" and
appointed to the post  of American Minister to the Court of St. James (Great
Britain) by John Quincy Adams. In November 1827 he retired from Public
Service. Picture found on
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ppet/gallatin/page1.asp?secid=31

Passenger #2: Mrs. Gallatin was Hannah Nicholson Gallatin, daughter of Com.
James Nicholson, American naval officer, and commander-in-chief of the navy
from 1777 until August 1781.

Passenger #4: Joshua Bates was a partner of the great banking-house of
Baring Bros. & Co., London.

Passenger #10: "... among [the passengers] was ... ? Gear, a branch of
Bearing [Baring?] Bros. & Co.'s house in Liverpool": from letter of Captain
Josiah Macy to his grandson, referring to passengers on this voyage.

Correspondence 05/07/2003 Captain Macy(additional correspondence below)
We have recently been given a silver ewer for our collection at the American
Museum.  It has an engraved inscription on it from the passengers of a ship
to its Captain.  
I thought you might be interested in the inscription on our ewer:
 
Engraved inscription on main body: "To Captain Josiah Macy / as a token of
esteem / from the passengers of the Silvanus Jenkins / December 1827"
 
This seems to fit with the crossing made by the Silvanus Jenkins from
Liverpool to NY on 30 November 1827.

Sarah Lloyd
Curatorial Assistant
The American Museum in Britain

Correspondence 08/18/2003 Captain Macy
The story of the Silvanus Jenkins (silvanusjenkins18271130) and Captain
Josiah Macy still appears to be unravelling and I thought you might like to
share in the further information that I have obtained!
 
After our discoveries on the web (thanks to your great website!) I was asked
by our librarian to write a short article for our magazine about our silver
ewer.  By happy accident a Mrs. Barclay, who had recently donated a silver
tea set to our museum, read the article.  Her family is also related to the
Macy's and she kindly sent us a transcripton of a letter written by Captain
Josiah Macy to his grandson about his sea faring days.  In it he records the
last voyage from Liverpool to New York in November 1827, and includes the
names of some of the passengers:
 
"I continued in charge of the S. Jenkins steadily in the Liverpool trade
until 11th month, 1827....The ship was now running as one of the line of of
Liverpool packets.  I had a very good freight home, and as many passengers
in the cabins as I could accomodate, among them was Albert Gallatin, his
wife and family (the American minister to Great Britain), Joshua Bates one
of the house of Baring Bros. & Co., of London with his family, ? Gear, a
branch of Bearing Bros. & Co.'s house in Liverpool, and many others.  I
merely mention a few names to show that the Silvanus Jenkins was considered
a good safe ship to cross the ocean in; the passage was one of the most
boisterous ones that I ever made; but we were favoured to arrive safe
without any serious accident."

Again, I hope you find this information of interest.
Yours sincerely
Sarah Lloyd, Curatorial Assistant
The American Museum in Britain
Claverton Manor
Bath.  BA2 7BD

Latter Day Saints Family History Library Film #0002256
Passenger lists of vessels arriving at New York
from Nov 21, 1827 to Jun 30, 1828
Ship Silvanus Jenkins, Liverpool, November 30, 1827, #776.

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