Immigrant Ships
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Ship Powerful

I, Samuel Nixon 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 the 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 Ship Powerful whereof I am Master, from Greenoch.

So help me God.
(Signed) Samuel Nixon

Sworn to, this 2^nd May 1859
Before me (Signed) CS Mead DC

List or Manifest OF ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Ship Powerful whereof Samuel Nixon is Master, from (omitted) burthen (omitted) 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. The Destination for all passengers was recorded as "United States" and there were no deaths recorded on the voyage; these columns have been omitted from the transcription.

  1  James Clark          34y  male    Calico Printer  Scotland
  2  Mrs. Mary Ann Clark  33y  female  Wife            Scotland
  3  Janet Clark          16y  female  Child           Scotland
  4  Rosa Diamond         20y  female  Servant         Ireland
  5  John Wilson          23y  male    Cabinet Maker   Scotland
  6  Mrs Magt Wilson      23y  female  Wife            Scotland
  7  James Thomas         23y  male    Farmer          Scotland
  8  James D. Stevinson   23y  male    Warehouseman    Scotland
  9  James Snedden        21y  male    Moulder         Scotland
 10  John Hay             35y  male    Surgeon         Scotland

                                    (signed)  Samuel Nixon


Transcriber's Notes:

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

The transcription preserves the original spelling.

The manifest scribe numbered the passengers.

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

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 191, List 312.

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