LIST OF PERSONS composing the crew of the ship William Hamilton of New Bedford, whereof William Swain is master bound for the Pacific Ocean and elsewhere on a whaling voyage

NAMES	PLACES OF BIRTH	PLACES OF RESIDENCE	OF WHAT COUNTRY CITIZENS OR SUBJECTS	DESCRIPTION OF THESE PERSONS
				AGES	HEIGHT		COMPLEXION	HAIR
					FEET	INCHES
Luther J. Briggs	Fairhaven	New Bedford	United States	21	5	3/4	light	light brown
Peleg Gifford	Rochester	New Bedford	United States	29	5	9	light	brown
Charles T. Terry	New Bedford	New Bedford	United States	22	5	4 1/4	fair	brown
Job Pierce
Bartholomew West	Fairhaven	New Bedford	United States	22	5	9	dark	dark
John [S. or L.] Churchman	Philadelphia	Philadelphia	United States	25	5	9 1/2	light	light
John G. Carr	Nantucket	Nantucket	United States	18	4	10	light	brown
George White	Westport	Westport	United States	43	5	8 3/4	light	brown
Charles Brochar	New Bedford	New Bedford	United States	55	5	8	dark	black curled
Daniel Lefavour	Salem	Salem	United States	34	5	5 1/2	dark	dark
Albert Allen	New Bedford	New Bedford	United States	14	4	5 1/2	dark	brown
John C. Smith	Dartmouth	Dartmouth	United States	17	5	3/4	light	brown
Thomas Butler	Baltimore	New Bedford	United States	25	5	7	black	woolly
Joseph Smith	Seekonk	New Bedford	United States	38	5	9 1/4	black	woolly
Richard Lee	Burrilville	Burrilville	United States	19	5	5	dark	dark
Orin Perigo	Buffalow	Buffalow	United States	19	5	5 1/4	light	brown
John Hall	Hallowell	Hallowell	United States	23	5	5 1/4	light	brown
George Kimball	Hallowell	Hallowell	United States	20	5	11 3/4	light	brown
Jonathan Hendrick
Charles Tuttle	Cammillus NY	Cammillus NY	United States	22
Darwin Magown	Cammillus "	Cammillus "	United States	20
Luman Powers	Armenia "	Armenia "	United States	20	5	9 1/2	light	brown
Turpin Ingraham	Summer Kill "	Summer Kill "	United States	24	5	9	light	brown
William Curtis	Auburn "	Auburn "	United States	26	5	9 1/4	dark	brown
Michael Hallenbeck	Bethlehem "	Bethlehem "	United States	25	5	10	dark	black
Harrison Wood	New Burgh "	New Burgh "	United States	18	5	7 1/2	light	light
Augustus Felch	Warterford Vt	Warterford Vt	United States	18	5	11 3/4	dark	light
John Bishop	New Haven Conn	New Haven Conn	United States	24	5	4 3/4	dark	black
Rufus Pearl	Ashford "	Ashford "	United States	16	5	4 3/4	light	brown
Henry E. Dwight
John Shaw
Juan Maria Calbag
[signed] William Swain

I William Swain do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that the above List contains the names of the crew of the William Hamilton together with the Places of their Birth and Residence as far as I can ascertain the same sworn this 26 day of May 1834 [signed] William Swain

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Charles Tobey Terry ?b. 28 Mar 1811 to Thomas T. & Sally Tobey (IGI, no source), or 28 Mar 1812 (New Bedford vrs, based on gravestone, Oak Grove Cem.), Charles T. of N. Bedford m. Nancy C. Bumpus of Fairhaven, MA, int. 8 Jun 1836 (NBed vrs). 1850 US census, MA, Bristol Co., Fairhaven, p. 201B, mariner. Nancy appears without him in later censuses.

John G. Carr ?b. 21 Apr 1815, Nantucket (Nantucket vrs, from William G. Folger records, Quaker?) to Moses & Mary, m. Anna B. Coffin 21 Oct 1841, Nant. (Nant. vrs). Continued as a whaling seaman, rising to mate on Emily Morgan (1842) and Columbus (1847) and captain of Columbus (1850) (New Bedford Public Library, online crewlists). He may have died in New Bedford in 1875 (MA Dept. of Health index of deaths)

George (Moody?) Kimball ?b. 7 Jan 1815, Randolph, Kennebec Co., ME (Henry S. Webster, VRs of Randolph, ME, transcr. in IGI) or Hallowell, Kennebec Co. (IGI, no source), son of Jesse & Betsy (Page)(IGI, no source), ?m. Caroline Bean 18 Feb 1851 (IGI, no source). The latter George: 1860 US census, ME, Kennebec Co., Pittston, p. 239, gentleman.

Charles Tuttle ?b. 1 June 1812, Camillus, Onondaga Co., NY, to James & Betsy (Gleason) (IGI, no source), ?m. Melissa West 11 Apr 1839, Camillus (IGI, no source)
Turpin Ingraham supp. b. July 1810, d. 5 June 1842, son of and William and Martha (Stranahan). Lived in Summer Hill, Cayuga Co., NY (internet site). Another site says he was b. Killingly, CT, 5 May 1805.

Darwin Magown - Darwin Magoon, son of Isaac and Betsey (Coney). A Coney genealogy says he went to sea and never returned.

Rufus Pearl b. 21 Nov 1817, Ashford, CT, son of Rufus and Abigail (Byles)(IGI, from Barbour). He moved to Louisiana, then Pensacola, FL, by 1860. He was a watchman at the Navy Yard there by 1870, so likely was in the Navy earlier. Married, children.

Orrin Perigo, surely the seaman who died at the Seaman's Retreat on Staten Island on 12 April 1846, of New York, age 31, reported in The Sailor's Magazin and Naval Journal, vol. 19 (New York:1847), p. 149. He may have been the son of Lyman and Betsy (Kettle) Perigo (see http://www.sprague-database.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I1124&tree=SpragueProject), who reportedly had a son of that name born about the right time. Lyman was in Venice, Cayuga Co., NY, in 1830 and 1840. In 1830 with a son 10-15 and another 15-20. Orrin the sailor was b. abt 1815, so he could have been either. He may have been the Orrin Perigo whose property in Arcadia was sold by sherrif's action in Newark, Wayne Co., NY, 18 Jan 1845 (Western Argus newspaper, Lyons, NY).

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