Immigrant Ships
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Ship Baltic

I, Augustus H Zerega Master of the Ship Baltic 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 ship at Grenock from which port said ship 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.

So help me God.
Signed) A H Ze???? (illegible)

Sworn to this 22 Ja?nay 189*
Before me (Signed) JWhite DC

List or Manifest OF ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Ship Baltic whereof A H Zerega is Master, from Grenock burthen 1320 tons.

Columns represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, The country to which they severally belong, The country to which they intend to become inhabitants, Died on the Voyage, and Part of the Vessel occupied by each passenger during the voyage. No deaths were recorded on the voyage and the Space Occupied "Forward House" was recorded for the first passenger only; these columns have been omitted from the transcription.

  1  Mrs. Agnes McTurk   26y  F  Farmer wife  Great Britain  U States
  2  David McTurk         7y  M  Farmer wife
  3  Eliza McTurk         6y  F  Farmer wife
  4* Margret Mc???on     25y  F  Servant      Great Britain  U States
  5* Agnes Mc???on       22y  F  Servant      Great Britain  U States
  6* Michael Mc???on     17y  M  Shoemaker    Great Britain  U States
  7* Hellen Thompson     28y  F  Servant
  8  Margret Young       2?y  F  Servant
  9  M^rs Isabella Bassy 24y  F  Servant
 10  Christiana Bassy     2y  F
 11  Janet Bassy          8m  F
 12  Robert Dormier      37y  M  Hatter       Great Britain  U States
 13  Daniel McLarin      30y  M  Ploughman    Great Britain  U States
 14  M^rs McLarin        25y  F               Great Britain  U States


At bottom of last page of manifest, recorded upside down:

                 Sh Baltic
                    Jany 22 - 1859

                 Grenock


Transcriber's Notes:

*  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 Notes below.

?  The use of a ? indicates a word or letters that could not be read due to quality of 
   the original document.

^  The use of a ^ indicates that the letter/letters following are superscripted.

*  Arrival year as written. Entry at end of manifest identifies the year as 1859.

The transcription preserves the original spelling.

Grenock is correctly spelled Greenock.

The manifest scribe numbered the passengers.

All ditto marks on the original manifest have been replaced with the actual words 
indicated.

4-6 Surname illegible.
7 First name as written.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 190, List 40.

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