Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Philadelphia

I, G Harrison Master of the Philadelphia do solemnly, sincerely and truly affirm 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 New York,is a full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board of the said Stmr at Hava?? from which port said Stmr has now arrived; and that on said list is truly designated the age, the sex, and the occupation of each of said passengers, the part of the vessel occupied 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 inhabitant; and that said List or Manifest truly sets forth the number of said passengers who have died on said voyage, and the names and ages of those who died.

So help me God.
(Signed) G Harrison

Sworn to this 12 Oct 1858
Before me (Signed) J??off???? (partially illegible)

List or Manifest OF ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Steamship Philadelphia whereof G Harrison is Master, from Havana burthen 1238 tons.

Columns represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, The country to which they severally belong, The country to which they intend to become inhabitants, Died on the Voyage, and Part of the Vessel occupied by each passenger during the voyage. No deaths were recorded on this voyage and this column has been omitted from the transcription.

  1  J. Desnes     34y  Male Millhand   Spain          No changes  Cabin
  2  F. G. Ritter  48y  Male Contractor United States  No changes  Cabin
  3  J. Calahan    23y  Male Merchant   United States  No changes  between decks
  4  G. Franchi    ?0y  Male Merchant   Spain          No changes  between decks
  5  H. McArthur   35y  Male Engineer   United States  No changes  between decks
  6  J. Moffet     26y  Male Engineer   United States  No changes  between decks
  7  E Gomez       25y  Male Engineer   Spain          No changes  between decks
  8  E. Egnes      29y  Male Merchant   Spain          No changes  between decks
  9* F. Balla?on   20y  Male Merchant   Spain          No changes  between decks
 10  William Smith 50y  Male Laborer    United States  No changes  between decks

At end of manifest:                                 (signed) G. Harrison


Transcriber's Notes:

* An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder, not the transcriber,
  or is used to call your attention to additional information in the Transcriber's Notes
  below.

? The use of a ? indicates a word or letters that could not be read due to quality of the 
  original document.

The transcription preserves the original spelling.

The manifest scribe did not number the passengers; the numbers have been added by the 
transcriber.

All ditto marks on the original manifest have been replaced with the actual words indicated.


 9  6th letter of surname not clear, could be Ballacon or Ballason.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 188, List 973.

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