Immigrant Ships
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SS Sam Shephard


New Orleans via Havana, Cuba to New York
7 December 1863

DISTRICT OF NEW YORK - PORT OF NEW YORK
I, Georg Jerrett, Master of the SS Sam Shephard, do solemnly, sincerely and truely swear that the following List or Manifest subscribed by me, and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs of the Collection District of New York, is a full and perfect list of all passengers taken on board of said-SS Sam Shephard from which port said SS has now arrived; and that on said list is truely designated the age, the sex, and the occupation of each of said passengers, the part of the vessel occupied by each during the passage, the country to which each belongs, and also the country of which it is intended by each to become an inhabitant: And that said List or Manifest truely sets forth the number of said passengers who have died on said voyage, and the names and ages of those who died.
So Help me God
(Signature)Georg Jerrett
Sworn to this 7th day of December 1863.
Before me .
List or Manifest of all the passengers taken on board the SS Sam Shephard where of __Georg Jerrett is master from N O Via Havana. Burthen 2114.
Columns represent: 1) Passenger number 2) Given Name 3) Surname 4) Age 5) Sex 6) Occupation 7) Country they are coming from 8) Country they intend to inhabit. 9) The part of the ship occupied by each passen
    
1 T des West, age 45, Male, Occupation Blacksmith from Germany,  going to
Germany
2. Pedro Golindez, age 30, Male, Occupation Tailman, from Cuba returning to
Cuba.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Roll 236
Transcribed by Judy Bivens a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
14 July 2000


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