Passenger List of the Sailing Ship Fairfield
Passenger List of the Maria and Adriana
The passenger list for the Galiot Maria and Adriana was sworn on the
7th September 1840, by H.L. Baithen, ship's master. 
A galiot or galliot was a small, ocean-going sailing ship.  Thus the Maria and Adriana only
carried 75 passenger on its 1840 voyage . Of these, the first fourteen passengers listed on
the manifest were members of the Merlau family,  The are:
| Elizabeth B. | do | 40
years |
| Dorothea | do | 17 years |
| Margaretha | do | 15
years |
| Catharina | do | 10 years |
| Sophia | do | 8 years |
| Elizabeth | do | 5 years |
| Christoph | do | 10
months |
| Phillip | do | 34 years |
| Christina | do | 30 years |
| Magdalena | do | 10
years |
| Carl | do | 8 years |
| Dorothea | do | 1 year 5 months |
| Carl Merlau |
| 31 years |
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