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Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Brig Ajax

Havana, Cuba to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
12 June 1829

DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA - PORT OF PHILADELPHIA
REPORT OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Brig Ajax, Africas whereof R. H. Rank is Master from Havanna, Cuba burthen 147 77/95 tons and owned by R. H. Rank & R. Drummond of Norfolk and bound for Philadelphia.
Columns represent: Passenger number, given name, surname, age, sex, occupation, country to which they belong, country which they intend to inhabit. 
  

 1  D. L.        Valerie      40     male     merchant   France
 2  M.           Frere        25     female              West Indies    
 3  Mary         Frere         9     female              West Indies
 4  John         Frere         1y6m  male                West Indies 
 5  John         Pleasants    30     male     merchant   United States
 6* Clarissa                  50     female              United States 
 7  R.           Marine       35     male     merchant   West Indies  
 8  Sophia       Wilson       22     female              West Indies
 9  Elizabeth C. Howard       40     female              West Indies
10  Paulina      Monison       6     female              West Indies


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.

*  Names were transcribed as seen regardless of spelling.

*  Passenger number assigned by transcriber for ease of search.

*  Country which they intend to inhabit was not shown since all intended to become
   residents of the United States.


6  Passengers surname not evident but she it may be Pleasants.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 45.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
6 May 2008


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