Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Brig Caracas

REPORT OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Brig Caracas whereof C.K.Davis is Master, from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, burthen 147 tons and owned by Collen K. Davis of Philadelphia and bound to Philadelphia

Columns represent: Passenger number, given name, surname, age, sex,occupation, country to which they belong, country which they intend to inhabit.

 1*  John       Melville    45 years  male    Capt^n H? Bills^?  Canada
 2   Margaret   Melville    35 years  female                     Canada
 3   Alexander  Melville     4 years  male                       Canada
 4   Winthrop   Cunningham  35 years  male    merchant           United States
 5   John       Baker       30 years  male    sea captain        United States
 6*  John       M^cKenzie   40 years  male    mechanic           St. Thomas ?
    

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.

? Indicates a letter or number which could not be determined due to the
  condition of the manifest or handwriting of the original recorder.

^ Indicates letters are omitted and the following letter is superscripted.

Since all were going to United States of America this column has been omitted.

Passenger numbers assigned by transcriber for ease of search.

Ancestry.com claims arrival 26 March 1830.


 1 Words in Occupation after Capt^n maybe abbreviations of ship that this
   passenger was captain.
 6 After St. Thomas there are what seems to be three letters that are not
   readable, maybe abbreviation for Virgin Islands.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 45.

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