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Bark JJB
I, Robert Browning Master of the Bark JJB do solemnly and truly swear that the following List or Manifest, subscribed by me, and now delivered to the Collector of the Customs of the Collection District of New York, is a full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board of the said Bark JJB at Rio De Janeiro from which port said Bark JJB has now arrived; and that on said list is truly 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 county of which it is intended by each to become inhabitants; and said List or Manifest truly sets forth the number of said passengers who have died on said voyage, and the names and ages of those who died.
Sworn to this Jany 10 1878 So help me God. Robert Browning. before me ?????
List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Bark JJB whereof R Browing is Master from Rio de Janeiro burthen _________ tons.
Columns represent: Names, age, sex, occupation, the country in which they severally belong, the country in which they intend to become inhabitants, died on the voyage, Part of the vessel occupied by each passenger during the voyage.
1 I Tilford 21 Male Gent US Us Cabin 2 R Shannon 27 Male Gent US Us Cabin Correspondence 09/16/2004 You may be interested to know that in 1981 Betty Antunes de Oliveira published her transcription from Rio de Janeiro newspapers of Americans' names in inwards and outwards passenger lists between 1865 and 1890. This voyage departed from Rio de Janeiro on 14 Nov 1877. The American listed in the Jornal de Comércio the following day encompass No #2 only from your list. Ignoring obvious typographical errors (as might be expected in a Portuguese-language newspaper probably working from handwritten passenger lists), just a couple of observations: #2 Robert Shannon It seems that the other passenger omitted in error, since Robert Shannon and James A Tilford arrived at Rio de Janeiro together on 3 Nov 1877 from New York on CHITTAGONG. David Asprey
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 411, List 24.
Transcribed by Bette Dew a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
9 June 2002
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