Affidavit of Mary Clifford., this 25th day of June, 1883

Affidavit of Mary Clifford.

[Office of the Commissioners of Emigration, Castle Garden, New York.]

State of New York, City and County of New York, ss:

Mary Clifford, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That she is a native of Cahirciveen, county Kerry, Ireland, and arrived at the port of New York June 24, 1883, per steamship Furnessia, from Liverpool via Valencia, with her two illegitimate children, aged respectively four and two years. That she has been for five years an inmate of Cahirciveen workhouse. That she did not desire to come to the United States, but was forced to emigrate by the board of guardians of the poor, under threat of expulsion from the workhouse if she refused. That she was given free passage to New York by the English Government, and a draft for one pound ten shillings, on Henderson Bros. That the master of the workhouse, Jeremiah Galvin, took deponent and children to Valencia to put them on board the ship. That she has no hope of being able to make a living for herself and children in this country, and wishes to be sent back to Ireland.