Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Puebla

I, G Debney, Master of the City of Puebla do solemnly, sincerely, and truly 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 San Francisco, is a full and perfect list of all Chinese passengers taken on board the said vessel at Port Townsend from which port said vessel has now arrived, and they have not landed at any foreign port or place during the voyage, and of all such passengers now on board said vessel, and that on said List is truly designated the names and other particulars, as shown by their respective certificates.So help me God. (signature) G Debney
Sworn to this_day of_1894, before me, _______, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamship City of Puebla whereof G Debney is Master, from Port Townsend, burthen 1713 tons

CUSTOM HOUSE, PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON TERRITORY

Collector's Office June 22, 1894 Statement of the number of Chinese passengers embarked per SS City of Puebla (from U.S. ports of this District________, from Victoria, B.C., ______ in transit to China_________,)* Total 12

Sailed from Victoria, B.C. _________. I hereby certify the above to be correct and that the certificates of Victoria Chinamen have been compared by me with the Register on file at the Customs House at Port Townsend and are found to be correct. (signature)EB Barnprop, Deputy Collector of Customs

Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 25 day of June 1894 (signature) NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Columns represent: Number, No of Certificate, Name, Age, Occupation, Last Place of Residence, Height, Complexion, Color of Eyes, Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification, If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts*.

 1  127126 Lo   Kay      33 Merchant   Seattle       5'5"  Dk Brown no marks
 2  52503  Fong Na  Chue 49 Farmer     Seattle       5'4"  Dk Brown Scar over left eye
 3  52502  Chew Jan Law  41 Laundryman Seattle       5'4½" Dk Brown Scar above left temple
 4* 127142 Ye   Si? Wo   41 Laborer    Seattle       5'2"  Lt Brown Scar on right cheek
 5  127140 Man  Hong     30 Laborer    Seattle       5'2½" Dk Black Scar on forehead
 6  127141 Um   Toy      25 Laborer    Seattle       5'4"  Dk Black scar on left ear
 7  55716  Toy  Ah  How  27 Laborer    Seattle       5'7"  Dk Brown Left ear pierced
 8  127144 Wang Sing     28 Laborer    Seattle       5'    Lt Brown no marks
 9  127129 Wong Won      46 Laborer    Seattle       5'4"  Dk Brown no marks
10         See  Kine     46 Laborer    Port Townsend 5'2¾" Dk Brown Scar over left eye on temple
11         Hong Yee      29 Laundryman Port Townsend 5'3¾" Dk Brown Scar on each side of head
12         Che  Lin      30 Laundryman Port Townsend 5'1"  Dk Brown Mole on side of chin


Transcriber's Notes:

* An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder, not the transcriber,
  or calls attention to additional information in the transcriber notes.

The first two paragraphs above are printed as part of the form for this list.  The next two
 paragraphs are stamps added to the page and then completed.  The  first stamp is 
 crossed out in the part indicated by parentheses above, and replaced by:
 "from Puget Sound for San Francisco Cal via Victoria B.C."  

The pages on this film are not numbered so finding a particular ship can be difficult.  
 However, there appears to be a system of numbering the manifests.  In this portion of the
 film the numbers are not in exact order.  These numbers are included in the identification 
 of the film and reel numbers below.

The cover sheet for this list has a stamp and a handwritten note.  
 Inspector Presbury: Land the within named Chinese person on identification 
  (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector 
 I certify that I have this day landed the within named Chinese passengers 
  (signature) WW Presbury, Chinese Inspector June 25, 1894
 

The If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts column had no entries.

4  Second name is Sim or Sine.
  

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