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Schooner Bessie

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to Boston, Massachusetts
19 March 1873

LIST OR MANIFEST OF ALIEN IMMIGRANTS FOR THE COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION.
required by the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, under act of Congress, approved March 3, 1893, to be delivered to the Commissioner of Immigration by the Commanding Officer of any vessel having such passengers on board, upon arrival in the United States.
List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Schooner Bessie whereof R. Tobin, is master, from Halifax, NS burthen 62 tons.
Coloumns represent: Name in full, age in years and months, sex, occupation, the country to which they severally belong, the country of which they intend to become inhabitants, died on the voyage
  1  John Hardy   26   m   mech   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin
  2  Geo Mullin   22   m   mech   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin
  3  Tom Stale    23   m   mech   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin

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.

*  Passengers where numbered by the transcribers for ease of referencing.

*  None died on the voyage, this coloumn was eliminated.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M277, Reel 84.
Transcribed by Harry Green and Ines Mannhardt,
members of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
15 April 2006


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