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Brig Ospray

I, Joshua F. Oram, Master of the Brig Ospray of Baltimore do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear to the best of my knowledge and belief, that the annexed List subscribed with my name, contains a just and true account or report of all the passengers taken on board said Brig at St. Johns Newfoundland or any other foreign port or at sea and brought in the said vessel into any District of the USA since her departure from the said port of St. Johns Newfoundland. Sworn to this 2nd day of May 1849 before me
(signed) Collector
(signed) Joshua F. Oram

Passengers List per Ospray Oram Master from St. Johns Newfoundland to Baltimore US
Cabin Eight Pounds currency with ships fare
Steerage Three Pounds Ten Shillings cy f?nding themselves Two days allowed after
arrival at Baltimore for limit?ry luggage ?? Ship pays head money

Columns represent: Passenger number, Name, Age, Number of fares for Cabin, Number of fares for Steerage, Rate, Amount

    1* H. F. Rulofson                                                  1                8 00
  2-6  James Flinn  Wife, two children and one babi equal to age 4 to 12   3   £3 10/  10 10
 7-12  John McDonagh  Wife, one adult & three chidren equal to age 3 to 9  4/2 £3 10/  15 15
13-14  Michael Wall & Wife              50 & 45                            2   £3 10/   7
15-16  John Dean & Wife                 35 & 40                            2   £3 10/   7
17-18  Martin Roach & Wife              38 & 42                            2   £3 10/   7
19     John Walsh                       28                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
20-21* Manr?ce Stiggins & Wife          40 & 38                            2   £3 10/   7
22     John Foley                       36                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
23-26  David Fahey  Wife, child & babi equal to age 1 & 3                  2/2 £3 10/   8 15
27     William Cook                     40                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
28     Patrick Ravanagh                 40                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
29     Thomas Hayden                    25                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
30     Edmund Demsey                    30                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
31     John Coady                       40                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
32     James Manelly                    40                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
33     Thomas Mahan                     35                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
34     Michael Walsh                    35                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
35     Charles O'Donnell                40                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
36-37* James Mar. & Wife                30 & 35                            2   £3 10/   7
38-41  Sarah McCarthy Two children and one babi  3 & 5                     2   £3 10/   7
42     Nicholas Maife                   40                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
43     William Dodd                     40                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
44     James Dunn                       38                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
45     John Power                       38                                 1   £3 10/   3 10
46     Pat Gollman  free passage for fitting berths  28                    1
                                                         ___________________________________
                                                                    1     38        £ 137 10

Saint Johns  7 April 1849
(signed) W. ???tt St??ert
(signed) Joshua F. Oram


Transcriber's Notes:

This passenger list is all totally handwritten, no preprinted forms.  The only columns that are
labeled are 'Cabin', 'Steerage', 'Rate', and 'Amount'.  In the paragraph following the master's
statement, the word 'f?nding' could be either 'fending' or 'finding'. The word 'limit?ry' is
either 'limitary' or 'limitory'.  The word following 'luggage' could be 'do' or 'to', and also
looks similar to the '&' sign used in the list of passengers.

'Babi' is clearly written as shown.

1     No age given.  This is the only passenger traveling in the cabin.
20-21 The first name could be Manrace or Manrice.  I cannot see a dot, but the letter is very
       slender like an 'i', and looks like other 'i's in the list.
36-37 There is a period following the 'r' in 'Mar'.

The last name of first signature at the end of the passenger list looks like Stewert or Stewart.


According to the National Research Council of Canada's iceberg database, on April 14th, 1849,
the Brig Ospray, traveling from St. John's, Newfoundland to Baltimore, passed several fields
of ice at 40 degrees 23 minutes North and 62 degrees 23 minutes West, and was forced to take
a southern passage.  On the outward passage on the Banks of Newfoundland, it was completely
blocked in the ice (8 to 16 feet thick) for four days.  This database is located at: 
http://www.nrc.ca/idm/ice/ice_charts/1849fapi.htm 

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M255, Reel 7, List 33.

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