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Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild
Steamer Linda

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada to Boston, Massachusetts
9 March 1874

* I, Master of the above-named (left blank), from the port of (left blank), do solemnly, truly and sincerely swear that the above List contains the names and descriptions of all the Passengers who were on board the said at the time of or since her last departure from the said Port of (left blank), or that have been taken on board the said vessel at any foreign port, and that none have died on the voyage.
Collector's office, port of Boston, MA, 187 .
Subscribed and sworn to before
_______________ Collector.

COPY OF REPORT AND LIST OF THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Steamer Linda whereof J. Leary is Master, burthen 183 tons.

Coloumns represent: names; age (years, months); sex; occupation, trade or profession; country to which they severally belong; country of which they intend to become inhabitants; died on voyage*; part of vessel occupied during the voyage.

  1  Eliza Roach           29   f               Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
  2  Wm E Lennox           26   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
  3  Thos. H. Montague     24   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
  4  Nathaniel Hines       25   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
  5  Raymond M^cCammisky   21   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
  6  Herman Crosby         22   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
  7  Danl M^cKenney        23   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
  8  L. A. Amerault        22   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
  9  Eleazer Churchill     26   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 10  A W Holmes            24   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 11  R S Kimball           48   m   mariner     Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 12* Gamaliel Swin?        26   m   mariner     Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 13  W Crowell             24   m   mariner     Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 14  Philip Hagan          27   m   mariner     Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 15  Edwd M Ellis          28   m   mech        Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 16  Isaac Abbott          26   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 17  Joseph Treat          22   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 18  John Wilson           29   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 19  Maurice Goodwin       24   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 20  John Lennox           23   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 21  Raymond Nickerson     22   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 22  Charles Murphy        26   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 23  Frank Bangler         29   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 24  Louis Sarette         24   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 25  John Strong           22   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 26  Joseph Murphy         24   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 27  Nathaniel Pierce      23   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 28  Minda Surette         21   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 29  Rufus Homer           27   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 30  Jas M^cComisky        24   m   fisherman   Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 31  J D Saulnier          49   m   mariner     Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 32  D D Nickerson         28   m   mariner     Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 33  James W Smith         24   m   mariner     Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 34  Herbert Hines         23   m   mariner     Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 35  G R Davis             48   m   merchant    Nova Scotia   United States   cabin      
 36  Joshua Broder         26   m   fisherman   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.

?  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.

*  The Captain's statement followed the passenger list.

*  No passengers died so this column was omitted.

*  Names were transcribed as seen regardless of spelling.

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

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M277, Reel 87.

Transcribed by Harry Green and Ines Mannhardt, members of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
4 April 2006

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