Immigrant Ships
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Ship Nebraska

I, J. Bestmann, do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear that the following List or Manifest of Passengers, subscribed by me, and now delivered by me 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 ship at Bremen from which said ship has now arrived; and that on said list is truly designated the age, the sex, and the occupation of each of said passengers, the place of the vessel occuped by each during the passage, the country to which each belongs, and also the country of which it is intended by each to become an inhabitatn, and that said List or Manifest truly sets forth the number of said passengers who ave died on said voyage, and the names and ages of those who died.
Sworn to this 7 July 1855 J. Bestmann, So help me God
Before me ?

List or Manifest of All the Passengers taken on board the Amer: Ship Nebraska whereof J. Bestmann is Master, from Bremen burthen 516 tons.

Columns represent: passenger name, age, gender,(indicated in this list by m or f rather than by male or female as in the original), and occupation. The country or place of origin and destination columns have been omitted in this list because it was Germany and the U.S. of America for all the passengers except for #7.

Cabin Passengers:
 1   Friedr. Clos         14  m  farmer
 2   Martha Dittmer       28  f
 3   Adam Schill          27  m  farmer
 4*  Marg. Elisab. Minsh  32  f
 5   Heinr. Wingfield     24  m  farmer
 6   Jacob Gerlach        50  m  farmer
 7*  W^m Gerlach          24  m  farmer
 8   George Gerlach       26  m  farmer
 9*  Tobias Gerlach        ?  m
10   Philipp Hotzel       17  m  farmer
11   Marg. Hotzel         20  f
12   Anna Barb. Hotzel    52  f

Second Cabin:
13   Valentin Abe         44  m  farmer
14   Marg. Abe            39  f
15   Daniel Abe            5  m
16   Magdal. Abe          14  f
17   Marg. Abe            49  f
18   Elisab. Abe           6m f
19   Gottfr. Westvol      44  m  Mason
20   Emilie Bobbe         52  f
21   Samuel Petrich       28  m  farmer
22   Wilhelmine Petrich   26  f
23   Samuel Petrich       58  m
24   Augeste Petrich       2  f
25*  Julius H. Petrich     9m m
26   Wilhelmine Petrich   19  f
27   Gottfr. Gabert       38  m
28   Anna C. Gabert       36  f
29   Aug. Gabert           9  m
30   Samuel Gabert         7  m
31   Auguste Gabert        5  f
32   Ernestine Schulz     21  f
33   Adelheid Herzfelder  53  f
34   Sophia Herzfelder    21  f
35   Ger. Fr. Kailberer   42  m  joiner
36   Ludwig Diez          46  m  farmer
37   Maria Diez           46  f
38   Elisab. Diez         12  f
39   Heinr. Diez           9  m
40   Heinr. Knabe         25  m  Taylor
41   Maria Knabe          20  f
42*  Marie Gieseke        18  f
43   H. Kewel             61  m  farmer
44   Christine Kewel      40  f
45   Heinr. Bohne         32  m  farmer
46   Louise Bohne         26  f
47   Heinr. Kewel         40  m  farmer
48   Anton Bachmann       50  m  farmer
49   W^m Bachmann         21  m  farmer
50   Eva Maria Blank      24  f
51   Joh. Leonh. Blank    11m m
52   Joh. Koller          45  m  farmer
53   Magdal. Koller       42  f
54   Mariana Koller       23  f
55   Joh. Koller           7  m
56   Weipurga Koller       4  f
57   Anna Maria Koller     6m f
58   Bernh. Lochtefeld    29  m  farmer
59   Anton Deitermann     21  m  farmer
60*  Joh. Peter Matz      36  m  farmer
61*  Margr Matz           38  f
62*  Philipp Matz          7  m
63*  Johannes Matz        12  m
64   Regina Mohr          25  f
65*  Anna Gorries         31  f


Transcriber's Notes:

A question mark indicates material that was indecipherable.  
An asterisk indicates further information found in the passenger notes.  
A caret ^ indicates letters written in superscript, usually the ending of an
 abbreviated name. 


 4      Surname may be Minch. 
 7      Country of origin is listed as the United States.
 9      Age may be 9, 7, or 1.
25      Note in death column:  Julius H. Petrich died on 5th of June
42      There is something entered between the given and the surnames for
        this entry, but it is overwritten and seems to be the correction
        of a mistake. 
60-63   Surname may be Mutz.
65      Surname has an umlauted "o" so may be Goerries.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 164.

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