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Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild
Brig Amazon


New Orleans, Louisiana to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
25 April 1800

No. 1 Form of a Report and Manifest for a Ship or Vessel of the United States, from a Foreign Port.
Report and Manifest of the Cargo laden on board the Brig Amazon whereof Sam Lewis is master, which cargo was taken on board at New Orleans, LA, burthen 162 7/95 tons built at Rockefter in the State of Massachusets and owned by Henry Sparks ?? & ?? Morgan & Price merchants at Philadelp^a as per Register granted at Philadelphia the 5th day of August 1799 and bound for Philad^a.
Columns represent: Line number; Marks; Number inclusive; Packages and contents; by whom shipped; To whom configured, or if to configured; Place of Configuree's residence; ports of destination.
BA     1@ 54    Fifty four hoghsheads of sugars         }  B? Lochran & Rhea   Mn^ssr Morgan & Price &     Philadelp^a       Philadelp^a
BA     1@ 149   One hundred forty nine bales of cotton  }                     & Henry Sparks Jun.
MP     1@ 2     Two bales of deer skin                  }
I*LS   1@ 7     seven bales of deer skins               }   Cochran & Rhea      Henry Sparks  ???          Philadelp^a       Philadelp^a                
       1        one pack of beaver furs                 } 
D.W.C. 1@ 20    twenty bales of cotton                    Richard Relf        Danniel W Cory                        
       1@ 7     seven packages of beaver furs             Cochran & Rhea      Mss^rs Rob^t Smith & Co      Philadelp^a       Philadelp^a
S.L    1@ 6     six hogheads of sugars                    Sam^l Lewis         Sam^l Lewis
L.R    1@ 2     two barrels of nuts                       Tho^s Randel        Isabella Randel
                two barrels of Shoss? Amittia             Sam^l Lewis         Sam^l Lewis
                ?ansh?t Delewath

Steerage passenger:                                                   stores:
1 W^m Mason     -   from the state of Kentucky                         five barrels bread
                                                                       two blls beef & one pork
                                                                       case of ???
    Copy Philad^a April 25, 1800
    sworn before John Graff DC^do


National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 1.
Transcribed by Harry Green, formatted by Ines Mannhardt,
members of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
4 May 2008



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