Brig Commerce
I, Wm. B. Blanchard, do solemly and truly swear, that the list subscribed with my name, contains to the best of my knowledge and belief, a just and true account or report, of all the passengers, who have been taken on board the Brig Commerce at St. Thomas, or at any foreign port at sea, and brought in said Brig into any district of the United States since the departure from the port of St. Thomas.
Signed Wm. B. Blanchard
Sworn the thirteenth September 1845, before __________.
List of all the passengers taken on board the Brig Commerce, Wm. H. Thompson Master, of Baltimore, MD at St. Thomas
Columns represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, Country to which they belong, Country to which the intend to become inhabitants of, *Died on Passage.
1 John Bishop 38 male Mariner United States United States Transcriber's Notes: Passengers were not numbered on the original manifest. This was done by the transcriber for ease of referencing. * An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder, not the transcriber, or is used to call your attention to additional information in the transcriber's NOTE. ? Indicates a letter or number which could not be determined due to the condition of the manifest or handwriting of the original recorder. ^ Indicates letters are omitted and the following letter is superscripted. Nobody died on this voyage, therefore the coloumn was eliminated.
National Archives and Records Administration M255, Reel 5
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