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Schooner C.D. Horton

I, Samuel McKeenore Master of the Schn CD Horton do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear 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 Vessel at Havana from which port said vessel 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 inhabitants; and that said List or Manifest truly sets forth the number of said passengers who have died on said voyage, and names and ages of those who died.

Sworn to this 28th June 1862 So help me God. Before me ???Unreadable Samuel MCKeenore

List or Manifest OF ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Br. Schs C.D. Horton whereof Samuel McKeenore is Master from Havana burthen one hundred and six tons.

Columns represent: Names, Ages, Sex, Occupation, The country to which they severally belong, The country in which they intended to become inhabitants, died on voyage, part of the vessel occupied by the passenger during the voyage.

   
1  Henry Esquilant        47 Male Machinist  U.S.  U.S.  Cabin
2  Henry Olseno           44 Male Engineer   U.S.  U.S.  Cabin


Transcriber's Notes:

?  Indicates a letter or number which could not be determined due to the
   condition of the manifest or handwriting of the original recorder.

Correspondence 4/15/02 passenger #1 Esquilant
The person of interest is Henry Esquilant. He is listed as arriving, 
on the Schooner C.D. Horton, from Havana, Cuba to New York 28 June 1862. 
His occupation is given as Machinist and his age 47 years. It further 
shows that he was a resident of the US and was returning. 

There is other information for a Henry Esquilant, whom is undoubtedly 
the same, in the Iowa census of 1860. It shows him as being born in 
England, his age as 50 and occupation as Machinist. He was married, 
his wife Sarah being 45 years of age. 

He died at Fort D. A. Russell in Cheyenne on 28th. December, 1868, 
his grave number is 190. He was a civil employee in the Quarter 
Masters store. 

We have quite an amount of data on our family relating to England 
but it does not appear to include this Henry. There is a Sarah however, 
a widow, who was undoubtedly his wife. We do not have anything positive 
to confirm this. 

From both of the above sources he would have been born about 1815. 
Unlike some of the era he obviously remembered his age. 
Les Esquilant
I live in Belmont, New South Wales, Australia. Belmont is a suburb of 
Newcastle some 150 km north of Sydney. We believe that our ancestors 
were French, originally, and possibly left France in the 1700's. The 
earliest ancestor we can accurately define is my Great Great Grandfather 
born in the late 1700's.  

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 220, List 617.

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