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Canton, China to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Arrived "off Wilmington River, Delaware" 5 March 1801
Arrived Philadelphia, PA 9 March 1801
There is no sworn statement
There is no captain listed

Steerage Passengers
1  George  Stoughtenbey  Baggage: one chest; one trunk; one writing desk; one bed; 
   two backgammon boards
2  Nath^n Groves -  baggage: one chest, one trunk,  one writing desk

 Vessel and cabin stores:
 Two barrels beef
 Five barrels pork
 One barrel peas
 one barrel beans
 six hundred ? bread (this could be loaves of bread)
 one quarter cask sugar
 ten pounds tea
 thirty pounds chocolate
                                                               off Wilmington River Deleware
                                                                             5th March 1801
                                                                       (signed) Tho^s Wills 
                                                                (he probably was the captain)
copy            Philad  March 9, 1801
                     sworn before 
                             John Graff D'C^w


Transcriber's Notes:

Even though the manifest says that the ship arrived at Wilmington River Deleware, it most 
likely should be that it arrived in Wilmington on the Deleware River....there is no Wilmington 
River.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 1.
Transcribed by Harry Green, formatted by Ines Mannhardt, members of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
20 April 2008


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