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Brig Liberia

Monrovia, Africa to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3 May 1830

DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA - PORT OF PHILADELPHIA
REPORT OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Brig Liberia, Africas whereof James W. Summers is Master from Liberia, Africa, burthen 190 83/95 tons and owned by R. F. Allen of New York and bound to Philadelphia.
Columns represent: Passenger number, given name, surname, age, sex, occupation, country to which they belong, country which they intend to inhabit. 
  
 1  Francis    Devaney    35      male    merchant
 2  Rebecca    Devaney    25      female         
 3  Isaiah     Devaney       9m   male      
 4  Elizabeth  Devaney       3m   female    
 5  Francis    --         14      male    servant
 6* A. H.      Mechlin    25      male    agent for recaptured Africans 
 7  J. V.      Smith      22      male    surgeon U.S. Navy  


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.

*  Passenger number assigned by transcriber for ease of search.

*  Country belonging and country they intend to become inhabitant are not shown as 
   all were from and intended to be residents of the United States.

6  This passenger may have  been the doctor associated with the colony of American
   Africans who chose to return to Africa. This country took the name Liberia 
   relating to the liberty the former slaves found there. Reference
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 45.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
5 May 2008


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