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Ship Eliza Grant

DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI – PORT OF NEW ORLEANS

I, S. Pray, do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear, that the Report and Manifest subscribed with my name, and now delivered by me to the Collector of the District of Mississippi, contains, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a just and true account of all the Goods, Wares and Merchandise, including Packages of every kind and nature whatsoever, which were on board the ship Eliza Grant at the time of her sailing from the Port of Liverpool or which have been laden or taken on board at any time since, and that the Packages of the said Goods are as particularly described as in the Bills of Lading, signed for the same by me, or with my knowledge; that I am at present, and have been Master of the said ship; that no Package whatsoever, or any Goods, Wares or Merchandise, have been unladen, landed, taken out, or in any manner whatever removed from on board the said ship since her departure from the said Port of Liverpool except such as are now particularly specified and declared in the abstract or account herewith, and that the clearance, and other papers, now delivered by me to the Collector, are all that I now have, or have had that any way relate to the Cargo of the said vessel; and I do further swear, that the several articles specified in the said Manifest, as the sea stores for the cabin and vessel, are truly such, and were bona fide put on board the said ship for the use of the officers, crew, and passengers thereof, and have none of them been brought, and are not intended, by way of Merchandise, or for sale, or for any other purpose than above mentioned, and are intended to remain on board for the consumption of the said officers and crew. I further swear, that if I shall hereafter discover, or know of any other or greater quantity of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, of any nature or kind whatsoever, than are contained in the Report and Manifest subscribed and now delivered by me, I will immediately and without delay, make due report thereof to the Collector of the Port or District of Mississippi. And I do likewise swear, that all matters whatsoever in the said Report and Manifest expressed, are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, just and true. Signed before me this 12th day of May 1828, (signed) B? Che?, Collector; (signed) Samuel Pray

Report and Manifest for a Ship or Vessel of the United States from a Foreign Port. Report and Manifest of the CARGO laden on board of the ship Eliza Grant whereof Samuel Pray is Master, which Cargo was taken on board at Liverpool, burden three hundred & fifty & 34/95th tons, built at Portsmouth in the State of New Hampshire and owned by William F. ?att?? ????????, Merchant, at New York, as per Register, granted at Portsmouth the nineteenth day of October 1825 and bound for New Orleans.

Columns represent: name, baggage. No other information provided on passengers.

    
  
  Steerage Passengers
  1  John Ryan               one chest
  2  Dennis Quilivan         one chest
  3  Marks Quilivan          one chest
  4  Magrett Quilivan
  5   and Michael her child
      
    
Transcriber's Notes:     
The cargo on board consisted of a great deal of salt: 2 separate orders.  
Seven Hundred Sacks of fine salt or seventy tons for John Minturn or 
Winturn Esq. of New Orleans, and six hundred & seventy six sacks salt 
or Sixty five tons ???? salt for Palfrey Worthington, also of New Orleans.  
Ship stores listed as five barrels beff (as found).

Passenger numbers added to aid with referencing.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M259, Reel 7.

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