Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Ship Centurion

I, Daniel P. Caulkins Master of the Centurion 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 Centurion at Glasgow from which port said Ship Centurion 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) Daniel P Caulkins

Sworn to this March 23^c 1859
Before me (Signed)                      LE?af???DC (illegible)

List or Manifest OF ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Centurion whereof Daniel P Caulkins is Master, from Glasgow burthen 744 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. The Destination for all passengers was recorded as "United States", no deaths were recorded on the voyage, and the Space Occupied for all passengers was recorded as "Poop Cabin"; these columns have been omitted from the transcription.

1  Charles Wotschshky  28y  Male    Farmer      Prussia
2  John McDonald       20y  Male    Drawer      Scotland
3  James McDonald      19y  Male    Farmer      Scotland
4  James Duncan        19y  Male    Joiner      Scotland
5  Owen McGarlan       36y  Male    Packman     Scotland
6  Catherine Bradley   55y  Female  Dressmaker  Scotland
7  Ann Crosse          32y  Female  Tailoress   England


Transcriber's Notes:

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

The transcription preserves the original spelling.

The manifest scribe did not number the passengers; the numbers have been added by the 
transcriber to aid with referencing.

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

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 190, List 175.

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