PASSENGER LIST
Bark RUSSIA, September 16, 1846
From the National Archives microfilms of Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, NY, 1820--1897. M237. The bark RUSSIA, which arrived in New York, NY, on September 16, 1846, is listed on roll # 64.
The right half of this page gives very little information, and was
omitted so that the left half could be shown large. All the families
were from "Prussia" and intended to become inhabitants of "United States."
Occupations listed were:
Michael Sasse, farmer
F. Fellwock, farmer
Friedr. Iago (sic), tailor
Freid (sic) Stein, farmer
Christ Kroning, farmer
Johann F Kahmen, mason (not sure of this surname)
Friedr. Schwan, farmer
Antreas Nielsen, seaman
Peter Sassner (?), hatmaker
Mat Wiesel, teacher
Jacob Wiesel, tradesman
The following information is from Michael Palmer, who focuses on ships and immigration.
"The sailing bark RUSSIA, George A. Preble, master, arrived at New York on 13 September 1846, 50 days from Hamburg, in ballast, with Captain Nera in the cabin and 129 passengers in steerage [New York _Evening Post_, 14 September 1846]. The passenger list, which the National Archives has dated as 6 September 1846 (although this may well be a misreading of 16 September), may be found on National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, roll 64, list #841 for 1846.
"Unfortunately, I can find no history for this vessel. There is no reference to her either in William Armstrong Fairburn, _Merchant Sail_ (6 vols.; Center Lovell, ME: Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation,
[1945-55]) or in Carl C. Cutler, _Queens of the Western Ocean; The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines_ (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, c1961). This, together with the fact that she called at New York only once, suggests that she was a transient trader that usually did not carry passengers, pressed into service at short notice for a single voyage by an over-zealous German emigration agent who had overbooked his "regular" vessels. Her master, George A. Preble, was in 1851 master of the ship SOUTH CAROLINA, which sailed in the Merchant's Line of New York-Mobile packets. His surname suggests a New England connection... "
I find Mr. Palmer's comments about the RUSSIA being a transient trader very interesting. It corroborates what J. Fred Fellwock wrote in his