Immigrant Ships
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SS Edinburgh

I, Wm Cumming do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that the following List or Manifest of Passengers, subscribed with my name, and now delivered by me to the Collector of Customs for the District of New York, contains, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a just and true account of all the Passengers received on board the S. S. Edinburgh whereof I am Master, from New York.

So help me God.
(signed) Wm Cumming

Sworn to, this 23 Dec 1858
Before me (signed) JWhite DC

List or Manifest of ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the SS Edinburgh whereof W^m Cumming is Master, from Glasgow burthen 1494 tons.

Columns represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, The country to which they severally belong, The country to which they intend to become inhabitants, and Died on the Voyage.

  1* Ann Black?s      16y       F Spinster  Britain  UStates
  2  John McCarter    45y       M Farmer    UStates  UStates
  3  W^m Reid         20y       m Farmer    Britain  Canada
  4  Mary Patterson   60y       f Spinster  Britain  UStates
  5  Dorcas Gorman    26y       f Spinster  Britain  UStates
  6  Isabella Kidd    26y       f Spinster  Britain  UStates
  7  Jas Robertson    22y       m Farmer    Britain  Canada
  8  Henry Wilson     30y       m Clerk     Britain  UStates
  9  Thos. Dick       38y       m Farmer    Britain  UStates
 10  Ann Dick         22y       f Wife      Britain  UStates
 11  Margt. Dick           8m   f           Britain  UStates
 12* Mary Stredman    ??y       f Wife      UStates  UStates
 13  Betsy White      17y       f Spinster  Britain  UStates
 14  Margt. Robertson 38y       f Wife      Britain  UStates
 15  John Hunter      32y       m Mariner   UStates  UStates
 16  Christina Brown  23y       f Spinster  Britain  UStates
 17  Jas McPherson    23y       m Farmer    Britain  Canada
 18  Ann McIntosh     36y       f Wife      Britain  UStates
 19  Margt. Johnston  38y       f Wife      Britain  UStates
 20* Thos. Johnston    ?y       m           Britain  UStates
 21  Jas Johnston      2y       m           Britain  UStates
 22  John Clark       20y       m Engineer  Britain  UStates
 23  Ellen Dow        21y       f Spinster  Britain  UStates
 24  John Cairns      17y       m ??ster    UStates  UStates
 25  John McAllister  30y       m Clergyman UStates  UStates
 26  Rob^t Dick       32y       m Mechanic  UStates  UStates
 27  Susan Lee        25y       f Spinster  UStates  UStates
 28  Mary Cameron     27y       f Spinster  Britain  UStates
 29  Marion Curr      30y       f Spinster  Britain  UStates
 30  John Curr        11y       m           Britain  UStates
 31  W^m Curr          9y       m           Britain  UStates
 32  John Kennedy     65y       m Farmer    UStates  UStates
 33  John Murdock     25y       m Labourer  Britain  UStates
 34  John McLaren     30y       m Labourer  UStates  UStates
 35  Rob^t Stoff      23y       m Student   Britain  UStates
 36  W^m Morrison     51y       m Farmer    Britain  Canada
 37  Janet McLeod     22y       f Spinster  Britain  UStates
 38  Mary Stornell    23y       f Spinster  UStates  UStates
 39  John McKay       11y       m           Britain  UStates
 40  Eliza Murray     42y       f Wife      UStates  UStates
 41  Jane Murray      12y       f           UStates  UStates
 42  Margt. Murray     8y       f           UStates  UStates
 43  Rob^t Murray      3y       m           UStates  UStates
 44  James Cameron    30y       m Minister  UStates  UStates
 45  Ed Long          65y       m Mercht    UStates  UStates
 46  Victoria Long    25y       f Spinster  UStates  UStates
 47  John Storey      19y       m           UStates  UStates
 48  Eliza Wyllie     14y       f Spinster  Britain  Canada
 49  Rob^t Wyllie      7y       m           Britain  Canada
 50  Peter Kenneth    56y       m Farmer    UStates  UStates
 51  Thos. Henderson  20y       m Clerk     Britain  UStates
 52  Benj. Cockburn   40y       m Mercht    UStates  UStates
 53  John Edwards     22y       m Mercht    UStates  UStates
 54  David Walker     35y       m Mercht    Britain  UStates  died at sea 6^th Dec 58


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.

The transcription preserves the original spelling.

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

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

 1 Next-to-last letter in surname illegible.
12 Age heavily overwritten, illegible.
20 Age overwritten, could be 6y or 8y, is less than 10y.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 189, List 1170.

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