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Schooner Peerless

I, ??, Master of the Sch* Peerless* 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 Schooner at Bermuda from which port said Schooner 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.

Sworn to this April 17 1860 So Help me God.
Before me, unreadable

List or Manifest Of All The Passengers taken on board the Scho Peerless whereof ?? is Master, from Bermuda burthen 200 tons.

Columns represent: Names, ages, Sex, Occupation, The country to which they severally belong, The country in which they intend to become inhabitants, Died on the voyage, Part of the vessel occupied by each passenger during the voyage. Since there were no deaths that column has been omitted.

    
1* S?????    McFlee Lu    40  male  Gent    U States   U States    Cabin
2* Julia     Smith        18  fe    Lady    U States   U States    Cabin
3* Elizabeth Pagg??t      25  fe    Lady    U States   U States    Cabin
4* Rebecca   Pagg??t      10  fe    Lady    U States   U States    Cabin
5* ?????     Pagg??t      60  male  Gent    U States   U States    Cabin 
6* L???ly    Lu?gh        30  male  Gent    U States   U States    Cabin
    

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 read,
   due to the quality of the original document.

*  Collector of Customs: (in the sworn statement) Name is
   essentially undecipherable. It may begin with an "M" and
   may end with the subscripted abbreviation: DC which 
   probably stands for Deputy Collector.

* Abbreviation for Schooner.
* Peerless is actually written Peerlefs the old way of writing "ss" they 
  would use "fs".

 1, 5, 6  Gent is for Gentleman not the mis-spelling of the transcriber
 2, 3, 4  fe is for female not the mis-spelling of the transcriber
 3, 4, 5  one family   

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 200, List 303.

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