Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS China

LIST OR MANIFEST OF ALIEN IMMIGRANTS FOR THE COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION.

Required by the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, under Act of Congress, approved March 3, 1893, to be delivered to the Commissioner of Immigration by the Commanding Officer of any vessel having such passengers on board upon arrival at a port in the United States.

S.S. China, sailing from Yokohama, Aug 7th, 1894 arriving at Port of San Francisco, 20 Aug, 1894.

Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Occupation, Last Residence, Whether ever before in the US, Whether going to join Relative or Friend

  
1  Hajime     Hoshi    20y8m   Merchant  Fukushima  No   No
2  Shozo      Otome    18y11m  Merchant  Saitame    No   No
3  Sentaro    Endo     23y10m  Student   Miyagi     No   No
4* Chitoshi   Suzuki   22y10m  Student   Miyagi     yes  No
5  Yushiro    Yema     17y3m   Student   Miyagi     No   No
6  Shigematsu Sawa     17y0m   Student   Tokyo      No   No
7  Sozaburo   Ono      16y8m   Student   Miyagi     No   No
8* Moses      Senzawa  25y2m   Servant   Shizuoka   No   yes

    
Transcriber's Notes:

There is no captain's statement nor captain's name attached to this manifest.
The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were 
not included in the table:
 Sex=Male  
 Married or Single=No*
 Able to Read & Write=yes  
 Nationality=Japanese
 Seaport for Landing in the US=San Francisco  
 Final Destination in the US=San Francisco 
 Whether having a ticket to final destination=yes 
 By whom was passage paid?=himself 
 Whether in Possession of Money-if less than $30, how much?=yes 
 Whether ever in Prison, Almshouse or supported by Charity=no
 Whether a Polygamist=no
 Whether under contract to labor in the US=no
 Condition of Health Mental and Physical=good
 Whether having any deformities=no
In the married or Single column "or Single" has been crossed out , leaving 
 Married .
Letters that are illegible or difficult to interpret are replaced by ?.

4 has been to San Diego once 1891.
8 occupation is "Mrs Chamberlain maid servant."  The passenger's sex is 
  recorded as Male by ditto marks; passage was paid by "Himself" also 
  indicated by ditto marks.  S/he is Going to Join "has a sister in Santa 
  Barbara Fuan Senzawa.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 2, Page 123.

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