Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Ketch President Benson

Monrovia, Liberia to Baltimore, Maryland
9 October 1860

DISTRICT OF NEW YORK - PORT OF NEW YORK
I, Wm Champion, do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear, that the with list, subscribed with my name contains to the best of my knowledge and belief, a just and true account or report of all passengers who have been taken on board the ketch President Benson at Monrovia or at any other foreign port, or at sea, and brought in said ketch in any district of the United States, since her departure from said port of (Monrovia).
Sworn 9 Oct 1860, Wm Champion
Before: ? (port authority signature indecipherable)
List of all Passengers taken on board of the ketch President Benson of Baltimore at Monrovia.
Columns represent: passenger name, age, gender, occupation, country to which they belong, country to which they intend to become inhabitants. 
1  R. S. Jones        42  male   merchant  Liberia  United States
2  C. Le de Randamie  28  male   merchant  Liberia  United States
3  Thos. S. Stewart   16  male   merchant  Liberia  United States

Note on bottom of list:
President Benson
Passenger List  (3)
Copied 10th Oct 1860
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M255, Reel 13.
Transcribed by Gene Janssen a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
26 September 2002

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