Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS San Juan

I, Jas McCrae, Master of the SS San Juan 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 Panama from which port said vessel has now arrived, or that have been taken on board the said vessel at any foreign port or place, 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) Jas McCrae
Sworn to this 5 day of Apr 1892, before me, (signature) John M Dare, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the SS San Juan whereof Jas McCrae is Master, from Panama, burthen 1496 tons

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*.

              In Transit to Hong Kong

 1  See   Khay      28 Merchant  Peru
 2  Julio Munoz     32 Merchant  Peru
 3  Jose  Lodon     51 Merchant  Panama
 4  Tam   Sing      22 Merchant  Panama
 5  Tom   Khee      40 Merchant  Panama
 6  Saw   Tam Ching 24 Merchant  Panama
 7  Chen  Wan       37 Merchant  Panama
 8  Ah    Sing      28 Merchant  Panama
 9  Ah    Wai       40 Merchant  Panama
10  Ant^o Jose      30 Merchant  Panama
11  Lui   Yan       48 Merchant  Panama
12  Ah    Hin       44 Merchant  Peru
13  F^co  Hin        7 None      Peru
14  Ah    Pecke     21 Merchant  Peru
15  Tu    Chow      40 Merchant  Peru
16  Sara  Chow       8 None      Peru
17  Loan  Thing     56 Merchant  Panama
18  Thung Pin       40 Merchant  Peru
19* Tu    Sa??Bete  40 Merchant  Panama
20  Santiago Tensen 51 Merchant  Panama
21  Mau   Man       52 Merchant  Peru
22  Ah    Toe        4 None      Peru
23  Ah    Kee       37 Merchant  Panama

    Above named twenty-three Chinese transferred to SS City of Rio de Janeiro 
     and departed for Hong Kong April 5th


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.

A carat (^) preceeding a letter or letters indicates the following letter(s) was a superscript.

The pages on this film are not numbered so finding a particular ship can be difficult.  
 However, there is a system of numbering the manifests that is a part of the National
 Archives file system on Chinese persons.  These numbers are included in the identification 
 of the film and reel numbers below.

The departure port is listed as simply "Panama."  Research indicates this refers to Panama City.

For passengers bound for San Francisco, passengers' names and ages are followed by a stamp 
 that varies depending on the disposition of the passenger and which is stamped over whatever 
 information has been entered in the columns. 
Passengers allowed to land have the following stamp:
 Landed Collectors order (blank with a month and day date written in) 1892 by  Insp's (blank 
 for a name). 
 
Passengers not allowed to land have one of two different stamps:
 Landing Refused Habeas Corpus U.S.D.C. Case followed by a number.  These passengers were 
  probably allowed to land, but not to freely enter the country.
 Landing Refused Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date).

For passengers bound for a further destination there are two possible dispositions:
  Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number  These passengers expected to continue travel 
   by some other means to their destinations.
  Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date)

The following columns had no entries:
 No of Certificate
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification 
 If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts

According to the National Archives branch in San Bruno, California it is possible that they have
 some information on any Chinese passenger who arrived in San Francisco after 1886.

19  Second name could be Sannbete or Saunbete.

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