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Brig Rising States

Pictou, Nova Scotia to Wareham (New Bedford), Massachusetts
12 August 1836

DISTRICT OF NEW BEDFORD - PORT OF NEW BEDFORD
There was no captain's sworn statement filed with this list.
List of Passengers taken on board the Brig Rising States of Boston, whereof Warren Coombs is master, burthen 134 & 11/95 Tons, bound from Pictou to Wareham.
Columns represent: name, age, sex, occupation, country to which they belong, country of which they intend to become inhabitants. 
    
  1  William   Trombull   35  male    carpenter  United States  United States
  2  Paul      Peterson   40  male    carpenter  Prussia        Nova Scotia
  3  William   Sipple     21  male    mariner    Great Britain  United States
  4* John      Sipple     1?  male    mariner    Great Britain  United States
  5  Jane      Sipple     16  female             Great Britain  United States

New Bedford, August 12, 1836                               
(Signed) Warren Coombs
    

Transcriber's Notes:   

Port of arrival seems to be written Wareham, near New Bedford, 
but this is filed with New Bedford arrivals.

Passenger Notes:

  #4 age could be 11 or 14.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M575, Reel 5.
Contributed and Transcribed by Mary Koelzer a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
23 April 2002


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