Ship Acapulco
I, Sam^l L Clapp, master of Ship Acapulco do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that the following List or Manifest, subscribed by me and now delivered 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 Acapulco at Aspinwall, Panama, from which port said Ship Acapulco has now arrived; and that on the said list is truly designated the age, the sex, and the occupation of each of the 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, Sam^l L Clapp
Sworn before me this 25 November 1876 (signed) unreadable
List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Ship Acapulco whereof Sam'l L Clapp, is master, from Aspinwall, Panama burthen 2572 tons.
Columns represent: given name, surname, age, sex, occupation, country to which they belong. Columns for country which they intend to inhabit, accommodation are deleted and the information is shown at the start of each section.
Following passengers were all U.S. residents, returning to the U.S. and located in cabin
1 Norman Finn 48 male druggist
2 H. Herdegn 36 male merchant
3 M^rs Jno Pierson 62 fem
4 H S Megraw 34 male painter
5 F. Fountain 29 male printer
6 M^rs S K Parsons 28 fem
7* H ? Kimball 30 male ship clerk
8 G Lagerai 40 male merchant
9* O Koastter 32 male merchant
10 Ed^w Colley 20 male ship clerk
11 R M Reynolds 47 male ex minister US
12 M^r Livingston 63 male
13 L Gustave 34 male carpenter
14 M A Asch 36 male gen^l merchant
15 E Franklin 29 male gen^l merchant
16 Walter Field 64 male banker
Following passengers were all in steerage and all US residents returning to the US
17* C G ?alcourt 28 male plumber
18 Anto. Romagosa 39 male laborer
19 Owen M Mullane 62 male laborer
20 L.I. Freese 36 male laborer
21 Ola Olsen 28 male miner
22 Walter Hett 40 male miner
23 N H Wadwell 32 male miner
24 Louis Allen 28 male shoe maker
25 A Goldsworthy 32 male printer
26 James Moore 36 male carpenter
27 S I Willison 31 male boiler maker
28 Ja^s S Ford 40 male boiler maker
29 W^m Johnson 36 male boiler maker
30* Pat Flynn 18 male laborer
31 Hy Whalen 34 male printer
32 M^rs H Griffin 27 fem none
33 Rob^t Charlton 33 male miner
34 Nichola Hughes 36 male engineer
SIGNED: New York Nov 26/76
Sam^l L Clark
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.
? Indicates a letter or number which could not be determined due to the condition of the
manifest or handwriting of the original recorder.
^ A ^ followed by a letter indicates that the letter was superscripted.
* Names were transcribed as seen regardless of spelling.
* None died during the voyage, therefore this column was eliminated.
7 Middle initial is largely blocked by ink blot, may be "A"
8 Surname maybe Kvastter.
17 First letter of surname maybe "V"
30 Age had been overwritten maybe 28 or 38.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 406, List 1111.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
14 February 2008
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