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SS Colon

I, George MacKinnon, Master of the SS Colon do solemnly and truly swear 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 San Francisco, is a full and perfect list of all Chinese passengers taken on board the said vessel at Panama & Way Ports from which port said vessel has now arrived, or that have been taken on board the said vessel at any foreign port or place, and of all such passengers now on board said vessel, at Panama and Way Ports from which ports the daid b essel has now arrived. So help me God. (signature) George MacKinnon
Sworn to this 2 day of Sep 1896, before me, (signature) NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the SS Colon whereof George MacKinnon is Master, from Panama, burthen 1843.5 tons

Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Sex, Calling, Height, Color of Eyes, Color Hair, Physical Marks, Deaths

 1* Yugh    Chey      35 Male Merchant  5'3½"   Almond Black No ?ung Scar left hand
 2  John    Alfoo     33 Male Merchant  5'8½"   Almond Black Hair* lip
 3* Leo  Williams     18 Male Merchant  5'8"    Almond Black No ?uen Pitted left ear
 4* Chung   Foo  Kin  50 Male Merchant  5'41/3" Almond Grey  None
 5* Wong    Kin       28 Fem  Housewife 5'      Almond Black Scar between eyes
 6* Emma    Kin        5 Fem  None              Almond Black None
 7* Albert  Kin        3 Male None              Almond Black None
 8* Rebecca Kin        2 Fem  None              Almond Black None
 9* Louisa  Kin       6m Fem  None              Almond Black None
10  Wm      Hing Sans 28 Male Merchant  5'41/3" Almond Black minimal scar mouth
11  Chew    Lee       30 Male Merchant  5'3"    Almond Black scar left hand
12  Ay      Ching     40 Male Merchant  5'3½"   Almond Black Mole center of forehead
13  Mai     Lee  Sang 26 Male Merchant  5'11/3" Almond Black Unusual mole face
14  Man     Lee       35 Male Merchant  5'3½"   Almond Black Large scar left hand
15  Juan    Lee        4 Male None              Almond Black None
16  Chung   Loy       30 Male Merchant  5'6"    Almond Black Mole left hand
17  Wing    On        20 Male Merchant  5'3½"   Almond Black Mole on forehead
18  Wing    Cun       25 Male Merchant  5'4½"   Almond Black Scar right forehead
19  Ah      Sam       50 Male Merchant  5'7"    Almond Black Mole left ear
20* R.      Sing Lang 30 Male Merchant  5'5½"   Almond Black Pitted on nose
21* T.      Wing Yoe  46 Male Merchant  5'2½"   Almond Black Pitted
22  Jose    Low       23 Male Merchant  5'½"    Almond Black Scar left forehead
23  Cuan    Foo       32 Male Merchant  5'6½"   Almond Black Pitted

(23) All In Transit for Hong Kong
     2 Departed per Str "Peking", Hong Kong, Sept 2-'96
    21 Departed per Str "Rio", Hong Kong, Sept 3-'96

Transcriber's Notes:

* An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder, not the transcriber,
  or calls attention to additional information in the transcriber notes.

The pages on this film are not numbered so finding a particular ship can be difficult.
 However, there is a system of numbering the manifests that is a part of the National
 Archives file system on Chinese persons.  These numbers are included in the identification
 of the film and reel numbers below.  This ship appears on the film twice with two separate
 numbers.

Most passenger lists are completed on a printed page that has the paragraph transcribed here
 at the top of the page printed, requiring only that blanks for ship's and captain's
 names and port of departure be completed.  The paragraph for this ship was hand written
 by what appears to be the captain, since it is in the same hand as his signature, as is
 the list itself.

For passengers bound for San Francisco, passengers' names and ages are followed by a stamp
 that varies depending on the disposition of the passenger and which is stamped over whatever
 information has been entered in the columns.
Passengers allowed to land have the following stamp:
 Landed Collectors order (blank with a month and day date written in) 1896 by  Insp's (blank
 for a name).

Passengers not allowed to land have one of two different stamps:
 Landing Refused Habeas Corpus U.S.D.C. Case followed by a number.  These passengers were
  probably allowed to land, but not to freely enter the country.
 Landing Refused Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date).


For passengers bound for a further destination there are two possible dispositions:
  Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number  These passengers expected to continue
   travel by some other means to their destinations.
  Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date)

The following column had no entries:
 Deaths

According to the National Archives branch in San Bruno, California it is possible that they
 have some information on any Chinese passenger who arrived in San Francisco after 1886.

1,3 The same beginning letter appears in a word in the Physical Characteristics column.  It
     looks like a Q but could be L or T.
4-9 The adult male, number 4, at the top of this group has three names written out.  Those
     below have only the first name written out, followed by a single set of ditto marks.
     This is not clear as to whether those ditto marks refer to Foo Kin, both names, or just
     Kin.  The marks are under the K of Kin.
20  Landed "I.T." transit List 5779
21  Landed "I.T." transit List 5778
20,21 The 2 passengers who departed on the City of Peking are not otherwise identified.
       Perhaps it was these 2.

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