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Long Island South Shore and
Lynbrook
HISTORY WEBSITE
E-mail: Lynhistory@AOL.com
Web Address: Lynhistory.com
Phone: (516) 887-7673
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by Lynbrook Historical Books, 28 Hart Street - Lynbrook, NY 11563-1711
Copyright Protected © 2005-2010 by Arthur Mattson and Lynbrook Historical Books. All rights reserved.
Mr.
Mattson is the 2010 recipient of the Joseph F. Meany Award for
excellence in New York State Maritime History.
The
prize was awarded by the Association of Public Historians of New York State.
 
1st Edition Published, 2009
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Topics in Water and Ice
U.S.
Maritime History – Shipwrecks – Irish immigration in the 1830s
– Tall ships in the Age of Sail –Death of 215 Passengers and Crew
– Walt Whitman’s shipwreck-poetry – Currier and Ives prints
of the wrecks – The New York Harbor Pilots – Land Pirates –
The Origin of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Sea-Rescue Mission –
Lighthouses: Montauk Light, Fire
Island Light, Ambrose Lightship, Sandy Hook Light, and Navesink Light –
Places: Baldwin, Dublin, Far
Rockaway, Freeport, Hempstead, Liverpool, Lynbrook, Long Beach, Near
Rockaway, New York Harbor, New York City, Rockaway Beach, South Street
Seaport – Genealogy: Lists
of Passengers, Crews, and Rescuers.
Summary of Water and Ice
A tall, marble
monument in the Mariners Burying Ground in Lynbrook's Rockville Cemetery
recalls two horrific, long-forgotten tragedies on the South Shore of Long
Island. Worn engravings on this 170-year-old obelisk reveal that this is the
final resting place of 139 victims of two shipwrecks in the winter storms of
1836-7. One hundred passengers and crew on the tall ship Bristol drowned when a
massive wave filled her hold with water, just 400 yards off Rockaway Beach.
A few weeks later, 115 crewmembers and passengers— most of them women
and children from Ireland—were forced to go up on the deck of the
barque Mexico, just 200 yards off
Long Beach, in a blizzard. When their captain and crew abandoned them, they
all froze to death, their bodies encased in coats of ice. Mr. Mattson’s
research into this long-lost story took him to historical archives in Dublin, Liverpool, St. Croix, and across the U.S.
This true story from
the 1830s is a sadly universal one of the cruel treatment of immigrants by
those who transport them for profit. Today, for example, we have
“coyotes” leaving immigrants to die in the deserts of the
Southwest, and greedy boat captains dumping people outside New York Harbor
or in the sea off Haiti. In the 1830s, immigrants were treated
as less valuable than the cargo in the ships’ holds. Water
and Ice is a story of Long Island, New York City,
Ireland, and England—of
heroic rescuers, artists, and poets—and of cowards, body robbers, and
greedy shipowners.
The wrecks were the
biggest news story of the day in the U.S. Walt Whitman wrote about the wrecks in
Leaves of Grass, Currier and Ives
created prints, and the Supreme Court issued an important decision. Today the
story is all but forgotten.
In 2008, Mr. Mattson
presented a paper discussing the two wrecks at the Conference on New York
State History at Skidmore College. That paper (sans images) may be accessed
by clicking on the following:
NYS
Conference Paper
Praise for Water and Ice
Water & Ice is the engrossing story of two shipwrecks off Long Island, which were major catastrophes in 1836-37.
Arthur Mattson’s extensive research is reflected in the great detail he
presents about the two ships: their voyages, the devastating events in which
they were lost, and the subsequent heroic rescue efforts. Water & Ice is
a significant addition to maritime history and to New
York and Long Island history as
well.
—Natalie
A. Naylor
Professor
Emerita
Hofstra University
The scholarship and passion that went into this book
overwhelmed me, even as the drama kept me sailing through to the end. This is
a book that deserves a wide audience.
It's a surefire, exciting read, as well as a textbook of a sort in
that it contains a wealth of information. I'm a landlubber but I got an
education on tall ships with his guidance.
— Murray Bromberg
Author
Lynbrook Historical tidbits:
Mural in the Lynbrook
Post Office - by Kevin O'Malley.
(Looking north up Atlantic Avenue,
from where LIRR trestle is today)
Frank Short "Shorty The Cop" (ca. 1930) and Lynbrook's
Five Corners (ca. 1940), looking east down Merrick Road.
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The
book, The History of Lynbrook, is a
beautiful, 240-page, coffee-table-sized hardcover book with about 170 images
and illustrations.
Click Here to Order The History of
Lynbrook
A Brief History of Lynbrook
By Art Mattson
Copyright Protected © 2009
Permission to republish is required.
Source: The
History of Lynbrook, (pub. 2005) by
Arthur S. Mattson.
For
hundreds of years before English and Dutch settlers arrived, the Rockaway
Indians, an Algonquin group, lived in the area we today know as Lynbrook.
They called the place Rechqua-Akie, “a sandy place.” When the Europeans arrived in 1641,
they re-named the place Near Rockaway, from a mispronunciation of the Indian
name and because of its nearness to Hempstead,
which was the main settlement.
By 1785, there were 40 houses in the area, and in 1790 a Methodist
church was constructed at Ocean
Avenue and Merrick Road. The settlement became known as
Parson’s Corners. Small
farms gradually spread westward toward the Five Corners – at the
intersection of Hempstead Ave.,
Merrick Rd.,
Broadway and Atlantic Ave
– and the area around the Five Corners became known as Bloomfield.
Around 1830-40, a young
businessman from East Rockaway, Wright Pearsall, opened a general store and
post office at the Five Corners.
His store prospered so much so that, by 1850 he and his family owned
almost all the land around the Five Corners. The name Pearsall’s Corners took
hold. In 1853, the Merrick Road was
planked with hemlock boards and made into a toll road, providing a choice of
ways to get from Lynbrook to New
York City:
by stagecoach-and-ferry or by packet boat from East Rockaway.
When
the Southern Railroad extended its line through Pearsall’s Corners in
1867, it brought big changes. For
starters, the railroad shortened the name of the hamlet to Pearsalls. Other changes were more
profound. Previously, the village
had an economy based primarily on shipping non-perishable goods such as
milled wheat and corn to New York
City and to more distant ports. But now the railroad enabled Lynbrook
to pack and ship fresh farm produce and seafood direct to downtown Brooklyn
and then on to New York City
in just a few hours – for cash.
For example, in the month of February, 1882 alone, 356,350 pounds of
oysters were shipped from the Pearsalls railroad station. This new flow of
commerce was not just one-way. Dry-goods-stores, restaurants and inns were
opened in Pearsalls. By 1890, the
hamlet had grown to over 2,000 residents, many of them daily commuters to
jobs in downtown Brooklyn.
On
April 4, 1894 a group of newcomers to Pearsalls pushed through a name change
– to Lynbrook, which is “Brooklyn”
with syllables transposed. The name was changed over the strenuous objections
of many old-time residents. They
continued to call the hamlet “Pearsalls” for another 25
years. Along with the new name,
the newcomers brought about many improvements such as gas mains, electricity,
and telephone lines.
The year 1911 formally marked the end of Lynbrook
as a country hamlet. That is the
year the Village
of Lynbrook was
incorporated. Within the next
twenty years, bonds were issued to pave dirt roads with concrete, build a Municipal Building, and construct an all-brick
High School and a neo-classical-style Library. By 1925, all the remaining farms had
been subdivided into business and housing lots. That year Lynbrook was named the
fastest growing village in Nassau
County.
In recent years, a new library, village hall, recreation center and
community pool have been constructed.
The downtown business center has been revived with the help of a
federal grant. For the past 20 years, with little land available for
development, Lynbrook’s population has
hovered around 19,500 to 20,000.
Lynbrook’s Most Famous People:
Henri Charpentier ran Henri’s French
Restaurant, on Scranton
Avenue. Opened in 1906, the restaurant
became world famous. It was
patronized by presidents and generals, and gastronomes from as far away
as Europe. The invention of the crepe
suzette is credited to Henri Charpentier.
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Lynbrook was home to
Whittaker Chambers, the communist spy, writer, and witness for the
prosecution in US vs. Alger Hiss.
Chambers grew up in a house on Earle Avenue, beginning in 1904
when he was three. He lived in the house off and on throughout his
life. Chambers wrote an
emotional chapter about his life in Lynbrook
in his influential book, WITNESS.
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Wright Pearsall -- Wright Pearsall was the founder
of Lynbrook. His general store, post office and
stagecoach stop was the most important business in town in the mid
1800s. The name
“Pearsall’s Corners” took hold, lasting for 50 years until
the name Lynbrook was adopted in 1894.
Most Important Events in Lynbrook’s
History:
A Revolutionary War Battle was fought at Lynbrook’s eastern border. On June 22, 1776, George
Washington’s militiamen marched east along the Merikoke Indian trail (Merrick Road), to
Near Rockaway. They came to the
home of a British Loyalists, Isaac Denton, near the intersection of Merrick Road and Ocean Avenue. But
he, along with many of the Loyalists that they were looking for, fled into a
nearby swamp at today's Tanglewood Preserve. Nineteenth-Century historian
Henry Onderdonk Jr., in his book, Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County,
tells the story:
The party of Washington’s
soldiers went to Hempstead swamp (at the
head of Michael DeMott's mill pond) to take up some
Tories who were hiding there. The Tories made some resistance, and fired on
the soldiers in the woods. The soldiers returned the fire, and wounded
George, son of William Smith. The Tories then called for quarter. The
soldiers took six prisoners and put them in Jamaica jail.
[http://www.lihistory.com/4/hs402a.htm]
The Rockville Cemetery on Lynbrook’s eastern
border has a memorial to the tragic loss of over 200 Irish, Scottish, Welsh
and English immigrants who drowned in the winter storms of 1836-7 in wrecks
off Long Island’s South
Shore. 139 of the unfortunate passengers of
the ships Bristol and
Mexico
are buried there in a mass grave.
This was one of the worst sea disasters in American history. The story is the subject of Art
Mattson’s soon-to-be-published book, Water & Ice.
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Lynbrook's Mayors and Presidents
From 1911 to 1927
Lynbrook had ‘Presidents’
elected for 1-year terms. From 1928 on, ‘Mayors’ were elected
for 4-year terms.
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#
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Year Elected
or Filled Unexpired Term of
Predecessor
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Name
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1
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1911, 1912
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August D. Kelsey
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2
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1913
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Milton F. Abrams
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3
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1914, 1915
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George F. Adair
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4
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1916
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James H. Dayton
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5
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1917, 1918
& 1920
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George W. Wright
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6
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1919
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Charles H. Lott
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7
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1921
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Percy Howard
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8
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1922, 1924
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Phillip Stauderman
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9
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1925. 1926
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George E. Winter
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10
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1927, 1928,
1932
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Howard G. Wilson
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11
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1936, 1940,
1944
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William K. Ross
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12
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1948, 1952,
1956 (died in office 1958)
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Fred A. Greis
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13
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1958, 1960,
1964
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George H. Mangravite
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14
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1968, 1972,
1976, 1980 (resigned 1981)
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Francis X. Becker
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15
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1981
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Glenn Spielman
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16
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1983, 1987
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William Geier
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17
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1991
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Mary Colway
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18
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1995, 1999,
2003
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Eugene E. Scarpato
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19
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2007
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Brian Curran
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Lynbrook Village Facts:
Lynbrook’s Official Mottos: “The
Village That Leads the Way” and “Een Draght Mackt Maght” The latter is Dutch for:
“In Unity there is Strength,” which is also Brooklyn’s
motto. Remember: “Lyn-brook” is
“Brook-lyn” with syllables transposed.
Lynbrook’s Official Song: “Lynbrook, USA”
- Words and music by Paul E. Holm.
Lynbrook’s
Seal: designed by Jay Stroly in 1986.
Lynbrook’s
Village Hall: dedicated in
1970
Lynbrook’s
Highest Elevation above Sea Level:
31 feet (at Hawthorne St)
Lynbrook’s
Total Area: 2.0 square miles
Lynbrook’s
Population: 19,669 - as of Jan 1, 2000
Source is LIPA
[http://www.lipower.org/community/index.html#Pop.%20Survey]
Passenger
Lists of the Bristol
and the Mexico
Wrecked on the
South Shore of Long Island,
New York in 1836-37
(From the new book,
WATER AND ICE, see the top of this
webpage)
The 111 Passengers Aboard the Mexico
All froze to death,
except three men, as shown.
Sources:
Liverpool Customs House Records
Printed in the New York Sun, January 12, 1837.
Supplemental data from New York American January
5, 1837.
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Names
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Age
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Occupation
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Country
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Thomas Anderton
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36
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Farmer
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Unknown
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Ellen Anderton
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30
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None
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Unknown
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William Babbington
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30
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Clerk
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Ireland
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Isabella Ballentine
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28
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None
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Scotland
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Margaret Barrett
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25
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None
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Ireland (Cavan)
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Joseph Barrett
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Infant
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None
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Ireland
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Samuel Blackburn
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23
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Laborer
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Ireland (formerly of NY)
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Samuel Blackburn, Jr.
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19
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Laborer
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Ireland
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John Blanchard
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20
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Farmer
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Unknown
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Andrew Boyd
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17
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Laborer
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Unknown
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Bridget Brennan
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17
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None
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Ireland
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Joseph Brooks
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28
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Paper Maker
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England (Derbyshire)
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Terrance Burns
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28
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Laborer
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Ireland
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Miles Carpenter
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24
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None
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Ireland
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Margaret Carpenter
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28
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None
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Ireland
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Mary Carpenter
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30
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None
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Unknown
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Mary Carpenter
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25
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None
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Unknown
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Catharine Collins
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16
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None
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Ireland
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Mary Delaney
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22
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None
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Ireland
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Bernard Devine
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20
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Laborer
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Ireland (Cavan)
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Patrick Devine
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20
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Laborer
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Ireland (Cavan)
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Bridget Devine
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20
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None
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Ireland (Cavan)
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Margaret Dolan
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18
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None
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Ireland
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Christopher Dolan
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40
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Laborer
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Ireland
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Owen Durneen
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30
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Farmer
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Ireland
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Thomas Dwyer
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27
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Laborer
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Ireland
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Thomas Ellis
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20
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Laborer
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Ireland
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James Ellsworth
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52
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Tailor
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Poughkeepsie
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Martha Ellsworth
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13
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None
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Poughkeepsie
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Margaret Evans
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32
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None
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England
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George Evans
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10
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None
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England
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William Evans
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9
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None
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England
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Margaret Evans
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6
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None
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England
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John Evans
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Infant
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None
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England
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Bridget Farrell
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18
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None
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Ireland
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Catharine Galligan
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25
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None
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Ireland (Cavan)
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James Handlin
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18
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Laborer
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Ireland
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John Harden
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22
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Laborer
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Ireland
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Joseph Harford
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30
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Laborer
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Unknown
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John Hayes
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30
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Laborer
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Ireland (Cork)
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Joanna Hayes
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30
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None
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Ireland (Cork)
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Mary Hayes
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4
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None
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Ireland (Cork)
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John Hayes
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Infant
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None
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Ireland (Cork)
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Mary Higgins
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50
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None
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Ireland
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John Hope
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36
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Carpenter
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Ireland (Dublin)
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Mary Hope
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32
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None
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Ireland (Dublin)
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Wm. Hope
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14
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None
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Ireland (Dublin)
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Frederick Hope
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11
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None
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Ireland (Dublin)
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Thomas Hope
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9
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None
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Ireland (Dublin)
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Henry Hope
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7
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None
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Ireland (Dublin)
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Rose (or Rosa) Hughes
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15
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None
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Ireland
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John Jones
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30
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Laborer
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Unknown
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Wm. Jones
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23
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Laborer
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Unknown
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Charles Jones
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26
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Laborer
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Unknown
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Lewis Jones
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25
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Laborer
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Unknown
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Hannah Jones
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18
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None
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Unknown
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Bridget Kerr
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22
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None
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Unknown
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Maria Kerr
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20
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None
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Unknown
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Elizabeth Lawrence
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19
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None
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Scotland
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James Lawrence
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11
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None
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Scotland
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Catharine Lawrence
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9
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None
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Scotland
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John Leonard
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25
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Farmer
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Ireland
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Mary MacCafferty
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30
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None
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Ireland
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Sally Maguire
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18
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None
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Unknown
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Thomas Maloney
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23
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Laborer
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Ireland
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Matthew Martin
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30
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Steward
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Ireland
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Bartholw. McGlinn
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40
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Laborer
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Ireland
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Mary Metcalf
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42
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None
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England
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Barbara Metcalf
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13
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None
|
England
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Harriet Metcalf
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9
|
None
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England
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Elizabeth Metcalf
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7
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None
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England
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Emanuel Metcalf
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3
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None
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England
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Thomas Mollahan
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26
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Laborer
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Ireland (Rescued)
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Martha Mooney
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22
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None
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Ireland (Dublin)
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Michael (or Patrick) Murray
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28
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Laborer
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Ireland (Cavan)
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Ellery Nolan
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32
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None
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Unknown
|
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Richard Owens
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26
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Farmer
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Unknown
(Rescued)
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William Pepper
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33
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Farmer
|
England
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Judy Pepper
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33
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None
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England
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Joseph Pepper
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14
|
None
|
England
|
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William Pepper
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12
|
None
|
England
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Rebecca Pepper
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10
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None
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England
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David Pepper
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8
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None
|
England
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Mary Ann Pepper
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6
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None
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England
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Joseph Pepper
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4
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None
|
England
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John Reilly
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27
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Laborer
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Ireland (Cavan)
|
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Peter Rice
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22
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Laborer
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Ireland
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Wm. Robertson
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35
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Smith
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Unknown
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Catharine Ross
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20
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None
|
Ireland
|
|
Edward Smith
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25
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Laborer
|
Ireland (Cavan)
|
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Mary Smith
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25
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None
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Ireland (Cavan)
|
|
Elizabeth Smith
|
30
|
None
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Ireland (Cork)
|
|
Robert Smith
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16
|
None
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Ireland (Cork)
|
|
William Smith
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12
|
None
|
Ireland (Cork)
|
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John Sullivan
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20
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Clerk
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Ireland
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Bridget Sullivan
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18
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None
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Ireland
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|
James Thompson
|
27
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Laborer
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Unknown
|
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Sydney Thompson
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27
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Laborer
|
Unknown
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David Thompson
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25
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Tailor
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Unknown
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Eleanor Tierney
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18
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None
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Ireland (Cavan)
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Elizabeth Wilson
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30
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None
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Unknown
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Thomas Wilson
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7
|
None
|
Unknown
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Margaret Wilson
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3
|
None
|
Unknown
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James Wilson
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25
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Laborer
|
Unknown
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Mary Wilson
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24
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None
|
Unknown
|
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James Wilson, infant
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½
|
None
|
Unknown
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John Wood
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23
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Weaver
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Unknown
(Rescued)
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John Write
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28
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Laborer
|
Unknown
|
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Bridget Write
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28
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None
|
Unknown
|
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Nicholas Write
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2
|
None
|
Unknown
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Catharine Write, infant
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½
|
None
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Unknown
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111 total passengers per
Liverpool Customs House Record.
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21
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= Average Age
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The Crew of the Barque Mexico
Based on survivor interviews and the captain’s
statements in the New York Sun, January 12, 1837.
Also the New York Commercial Advertiser, January 5, 1837; and the
U.S. National Archives Record
Administration, New York City Office.
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Names
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Place of
Birth
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Place of
Resi-dence
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Citizen
of
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Age
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Ht
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Com
plexion
|
Status
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Capt. Charles Winslow.
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Penn-sylvania
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Phila-delphia
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United
States
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47
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5' 3"
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Light
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Rescued
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William Broom, Supercargo
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Penn-sylvania
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New York
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United
States
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14
or 15
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n/a
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White
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Rescued
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Noah N. Jordan, First Mate
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n/a
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n/a
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n/a
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n/a
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n/a
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White
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Fell to his death and drowned
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Edward Felix, Cook
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n/a
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n/a
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n/a
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n/a
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n/a
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Black
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Swam to Rescue Boat
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John Handsell, Carpenter
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n/a
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n/a
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n/a
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n/a
|
n/a
|
White
|
Rescued
|
|
Stephen Simmons,
Ship’s Steward
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
Black
|
Frozen
|
|
SEAMEN:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
John Francis
|
France
|
n/a
|
France
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
White
|
Rescued
|
|
Walter Quinn
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
Black
|
Frozen
|
|
James Munro
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
Black
|
Frozen
|
|
Lord Sherwood
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
Black
|
Frozen
|
|
Peter Pickering
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
Black
|
Frozen
|
|
Jacob Allen
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
Black
|
Frozen
|
Seven Men from Raynorstown who Conducted the Rescue of the Mexico:
Captain Raynor Rock Smith (51)
Zopher
R. Smith (Raynor
Smith’s son, 30)
James R. Smith (Raynor Smith’s son, 28)
Oliver R. Smith (Raynor Smith’s son, 24)
Oliver C. Smith
Samuel Raynor
Willet Smith
If not for Raynor Rock Smith (1785-1869), a fifty-one-year-old Long
Island boat captain, fisherman, and father of eighteen children, the Mexico
would have had no survivors. Smith and his six-man boat crew, including three
of his sons, dragged a surfboat for several miles—one report says ten
miles—from Raynorstown, across the frozen bay to
where the crippled ship lay. The rescue that they accomplished through high
winds, pounding surf, and slush ice is one of the most amazing feats in
maritime history.
Forty-Nine Steerage Passengers Who
Drowned in the Wreck of the Bristol
(From the
memory of Captain McKown.
He provided no
additional information about these passengers.)
Sources: The New York Sun, January 12, 1837, and
The New York
Herald, November 11,
1836.
|
Name
|
|
Mrs. Bennett
|
|
Mr. Braham
|
|
Wm. Buchannan
|
|
His wife
|
|
Their oldest child
|
|
Their middle child
|
|
Their youngest child
|
|
A person with last name Deary
|
|
U. Deavy
|
|
Deavy’s
sister
|
|
T. Delany
|
|
P. Diagin
|
|
His wife
|
|
E. Dorey
|
|
Andrew Doyle
|
|
A person with last name Garshney
|
|
Pat Handerhand
|
|
T.
Hundlin
|
|
A
person with last name Kearney
|
|
Patrick
Lamb
|
|
A
person with last name Larry
|
|
Mr.
Mackenott (or Macaumont
or Mackeonott)
|
|
His wife
|
|
Their oldest daughter
|
|
Their middle daughter
|
|
Their youngest daughter
|
|
Their son
|
|
Richard
Markey
|
|
Rosy
McDonald
|
|
A
person with last name Onders
|
|
Mrs.
O’Nealy
|
|
Her daughter
|
|
Her older son
|
|
Her younger son
|
|
Mr.
Phinegan
|
|
His wife
|
|
Mr.
Peaseley
|
|
His wife
|
|
Their child
|
|
Wm.
Quigley
|
|
A
person with last name Quinn
|
|
A
person with last name Scott
|
|
A
person with last name Smith
|
|
A child with last name
Smith
|
|
T.
White
|
|
His wife
|
|
Their oldest child
|
|
Their middle child
|
|
Their youngest child
|
Nineteen Steerage Passengers Saved from
the Bristol
(From the memory of
Captain McKown)
Sources: The New York Sun, January 12, 1837;
The New York Herald, November 25, 1836;
The New York Commercial
Advertiser, November 28, 1836; and
The Morning
Courier, November 25, 1836.
|
Name
|
Other Information
|
|
John
Carr
|
Kildare
|
|
William
Dairy
|
Derry, laborer
|
|
Elizabeth
Dairy
|
Derry, first-cabin servant girl
|
|
Richard
Faulkner
|
County Louth
|
|
John
Finnigan
|
Dublin, wheelwright
|
|
James
Gaffney
|
County Cavan
|
|
Patrick Lamb
|
Dublin, laborer
|
|
Peter
Markey
|
County Louth, currier
|
|
Michael
McGintry
|
Dublin
|
|
Patrick
O’Mealy
|
Kings County
|
|
Thomas
O’Mealy
|
Kings County
|
|
Michael
Mooney
|
Kings County, laborer
|
|
Catharine
Mooney
|
Kings County, first-cabin servant girl
|
|
John
Paisley
|
England, butcher
|
|
John
Roach
|
Limerick
|
|
Mr.
Warren
|
County Wicklow
|
|
Samuel
Warren
|
County Wicklow
|
|
James
Warren
|
County Wicklow
|
|
Michael
(no last name given)
|
Deaf and dumb man from Londonderry, about 40 years old
|
Six Passengers in Second Cabin
Who Survived the Wreck of the Bristol
Sources: New York Herald, November 29, 1836.
McEneny Family History.
|
Name
|
Other
Information
|
|
Michael
McGintry
(or
McGinty)
|
None
|
|
Michael
Horan
|
Gillen Parish in Kings County, Ireland.
Settled in Troy, New York.
|
|
(?)Thomas, his second son
|
"
|
|
(?)John, his third son
|
"
|
|
(?)James, his fourth son
|
"
|
|
(?)Kyran,
his fifth son
|
"
|
Forty-Three Passengers in Second Cabin
Who Perished in the Wreck of the Bristol
Primarily from the recollection of Captain McKown
Sources: New
York Sun, January 12, 1837.
New York
Herald, November 25, 1836.
Morning Courier & New York Express, various dates.
New York
Commercial Advertiser, November 24, 1836.
|
Name
|
Other Information
|
|
Dr. Aiken
|
North of Ireland, Medical
Doctor
|
|
Mrs.
Andrews
|
Derry (She
was listed as steerage in the New
York Commercial Advertiser)
|
|
Her eldest daughter
|
Derry
|
|
Her middle daughter
|
Derry
|
|
Her youngest daughter
|
Derry
|
|
Her son
|
Derry
|
|
Mr.
Bailiff
|
Dumfries, Scotland
|
|
Thomas Black
|
Scotland
|
|
Mr.
Burke
|
Tipperary
|
|
His sister
|
Tipperary
|
|
Jno. Cod
|
Dublin
|
|
Andrew Doyle
|
Donoghue, Ireland
|
|
John
Dunn
|
Dublin, Shoemaker
|
|
D.
Evans
|
None
|
|
Mr.
Stephen Graham
|
Manchester, England
|
|
His nephew, initials
“N.T.”
|
None
|
|
S.
Graham
|
Tailor
|
|
Mr. Graham
|
Lived in America for
sixteen years. Went back to England to
bring his nephew over.
|
|
His nephew, Thomas G.
Graham
|
England
|
|
T.
Horton
|
None
|
|
Mr.
Lacey
|
None
|
|
Mrs. Lacey
|
None
|
|
Mrs. Lucy
|
Dublin
|
|
Mr. McDermott
|
Donoghue, Ireland
|
|
A
person with the last name McFacters
|
None
|
|
Dr.
McMullin
|
North of Ireland, Medical
Doctor
|
|
A person with the last
name O’Reilly
|
Dublin
|
|
A
person with the last name Reilly (or Reily)
|
None
|
|
Christopher
Shields
|
Brooklyn (died
on shore)
|
|
J.
Thomas
|
None
|
|
Lewis
Thomas
|
Wales
|
|
Thomas Thomas
|
Wales
|
|
Mr.
Warren
|
None
|
|
His elder son
|
None
|
|
His younger son
|
None
|
|
James Will
|
Scotland
|
|
Mr.
Wise
|
None
|
|
His cousin, Georgia Wise
|
None
|
|
Mrs. Wolfe
|
England
|
|
Her niece
|
England
|
|
Unidentified
woman
|
New York, Dressmaker
|
|
Unidentified
woman
|
New York
|
|
Unidentified man
|
None
|
Ten Passengers in First Cabin on the Bristol
(A list from the memory of Captain McKown)
(See the Steerage List for the four others who were
in the round-house)
Sources:
New
York Sun, January 12, 1837.
LI Democrat, December 7, 1836.
|
Name
|
Other Information
|
Survival
|
|
Mrs. Frances Hogan (65)
|
Widow of Michael Hogan, Esq., of New York City, the U.S. consul at Valparaiso, Chile.
|
Survived the wreck.
|
|
Miss Frances
(“Fanny”) Hogan (41)
|
Daughter of
Mrs. Hogan, resident of New York City
|
Survived the wreck.
|
|
Mrs. Sophia
Donnelly (34)
|
Daughter of
Mrs. Hogan, traveling from India to NYC via England with her husband and two children.
|
Survived the wreck.
|
|
Mr. Arthur Donnelly
|
Husband of
Sophia Donnelly, an English merchant of Irish descent, emigrating to NYC with his
family.
|
Escaped from the cabin,
but drowned later.
|
|
The Donnellys’
elder daughter, a child
|
Born in
Calcutta, India.
|
Survived the wreck.
|
|
The Donnellys’
younger daughter, a child
|
Born in Calcutta, India.
|
Survived the wreck.
|
|
Vinissa, nursemaid to the Donnellys’
children
|
Of New York
City. Previously Mrs. Hogan’s slave in Cape Town, Africa. Freed in 1804 and indentured to the
Hogans until 1828.
|
Survived the wreck.
|
|
Francis Burtsall, Esq.
|
None
|
Survived the
wreck.
|
|
James Hale Carleton
|
Originally from Bristol,
England.
|
Escaped from the cabin,
but drowned later.
|
|
Edward Ash Carleton
|
Originally from Bristol,
England.
|
Escaped from the cabin,
but drowned later.
|
Thirty-two of the Bristol’s passengers and twelve
crewmen, including the captain, were saved on the stormy day and night of
November 21, 1836. Ninety-five passengers and five crewmen drowned. Surely,
any list of the bravest men in maritime history must include those who risked
their lives for others that day:
Alexander McKown, Captain
Arthur Donnelly, Passenger
The rescuers from Rockaway:
David T. Jennings, Wreck-Master
John Abrams, Boatman
Hiram Abrams, Boatman
George Combs, Boatman
Thomas Combs, Boatman
Oliver Cornell, Boatman
Oliver Cornell, Boatman
Gilbert Craft, Boatman
|