The following is a transcription of the crew list compiled at New Bedford on 10 January 1818 and submitted to collector John Hawes at the Customs House. The return list is the same except where noted.

LIST OF PERSONS composing the crew of the ship Barclay of New Bedford, whereof is master Job Coffin bound for the Pacific Ocean 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
Job Coffin
John Briggs	Berkley	New Bedford	United States	30	5	8 1/2	light	light
Charles G. Glover	Nantucket	Nantucket	ditto	22	5	8	fair	dark
George F. Austin	Nantucket	Nantucket	ditto	20	5	6	dark	dark
Ebenezer Delano	Nantucket	Fairhaven	ditto	20	5	3	fair	brown
John Lusy	Dartmouth	New Bedford	ditto	22	5	2 1/2	yellow	black
William Healy	Tivertown	New Bedford	ditto	26	5	11	light	brown
Alfred Shaw	Middleborough	Middleborough	ditto	20	5	4 1/2	light	brown
Nathaniel Drew	New Bedford	New Bedford	ditto	20	5	9 1/4	light	brown
Wilson Jenne	Fairhaven	Fairhaven	ditto	22	5	7	dark	brown
Heman Kelley	Yarmouth	Dartmouth	ditto	17	5	7 1/4	dark	brown
Elisha Peterson	Hanover	New Bedford	ditto	26	5	5 1/2	negro	wooly
Levan Bailey	Worcester Co.	New Bedford	ditto	16	5	3	light	light
Thomas Hector	Johnson, RI	New Bedford	ditto	39	5	4 1/2	black	wooly
Samuel M. Wood	Middleborough	Middleborough	ditto	19	6	3/4	fair	dark
Jacob Tripp	Gloucester	New Bedford	ditto	23	5	7 3/4	dark	brown
George Ease	New York	New Bedford	ditto	30	5	5	negro	wooly
Matthew Kelley	Dartmouth	Dartmouth	ditto	19	5	5 1/2	light	brown
Joseph Johnson	Cumberland Co.	New Bedford	ditto	26	5	3 1/2	black	wooly
Richard Johnson	New York	New Bedford	ditto	40	5	10 1/2	mulatto	wooly
John Jackson [on return list: January 26th 1818 disseasd]	Albany [on return list: "Ittally" was written under "Albany"]	New Bedford	ditto	47	5	4 3/4	black	wooly

signed Job Coffin

on the reverse: Ship Barclay list of crew January 10th 1818 I Job Coffin do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that the above List contains the Names of the Crew of the Ship Barclay of New Bedford together with the Places of their Birth and Residence, as far as I can ascertain the same. Sworn this tenth day of January 1818 Before me [signed] Jno Hawes Collector [signed] Job Coffin I do certify that the within is a true Copy of the list of the Crew of the Ship Barclay of New Bedford whereof Job Coffin is Master, taken from the Original, on File in this office. Given under my hand and Seal of Office, at the Custom-House, New Bedford this tenth day of January in the Year of our Lord, one thousand eight-hunderd and eighteen. [signed] John Hawes Collr I do hereby further certify that the within named persons who compose all of the company of the above mentioned ship Barclay whereof Job Coffin is at present Master, have produced to me proof in the manner directed in the Act entitled "An Act for the Relief and Protection of American Seamen." And pursuant to the said Act and to the Act Supplementary to the Act concerning Consuls and Vice Consuls, and for the further Protection of American Seamen I do hereby certify that the said persons are citizens of the United States of America Given under my Hand and Seal of Office, this tenth day of January 1818 [signed] Jno. Hawes Collr"

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