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Brig Emerald

Cornwallis (Wolfville)* to Boston, Massachusetts
4 June 1847

DISTRICT OF BOSTON – PORT OF BOSTON
There was no captain's sworn statement with this list.
COPY of Report and List of the Passengers taken on board the Brig Emerald of Halifax whereof John Ma?g??n is Master, burthen 196 tons and (not filled in)/95ths of a ton, bound from the Port of Cornwallis for Boston.
Columns represent: name, age, sex, occupation, country* to which they severally belong, country of which they intend to become inhabitants. 
    
   
1 Eliza Raymond         30  female  seamstress     N. S.    U. S.
2 Rhoda Ogilvie      *  6?  female  seamstress     N. S.    U. S.
3 Margaret Lawsen       20  female  seamstress     N. S.    U. S.
4 Am?s Simpson       *  39  male    farmer         N. S.    U. S.
5 Charles Benson     *  4?  male    mill wright    N. S.    U. S.
                                        
Transcriber's Notes: 
* There are both a Cornwallis and a Wolfville in Nova Scotia. While the original does 
  not state as such, the ship probably departed from those ports.  
* N. S. is probably used for Nova Scotia.

#2 age possibly 64.
#4 letter could be e or o.
#5 age could not be completely determined.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M277, Reel 23.
Contributed and Transcribed by Mary Koelzer a member of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
17 September 1999

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