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Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Northern Light

New York to Unknown Port, California
3 September 1861

PASSENGERS FOR CALIFORNIA -- The steamer Northern Light which sailed from New York Aug. 12th, took the following named passengers for California, as we learn from the correspondent of the ‘Bulletin’.
List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the steamer Northern Light whereof ______________, is master, from New York, burthen _____ tons.
Columns represent: given name, surname. 
    
 1  Mrs. William Babcock And Child
 2  Mrs. B.F. Sherman And Child
 3  Miss H.W. Goodale
 4  W. Goodale
 5  John S. Ellis
 6  Joseph S. Fisher
 7  Mrs. E. Greenwood
 8  T. Richardson
 9  H.H. Allen
10  Miss C. Schweitzer
11  W.H. Brown
12  Mrs. Delia Stebbins
13  Mrs. A. Wise And Daughter
14  Mrs. A. Dibblee And Daughter
15  Miss Gutman
16  W. Schraubstadter
17  N. Bachman
18  L.A. Ehrmann
19  C. Schubart
20  Miss Strauss
21  D.F. Fox
22  Mrs. M. Fox And Child
23  C. Sampson
24  A.E. Johnson And Wife
25  Mrs. S. Alexander And 2 Daughters
26  C. Gutman
27  S. Washein
28  Dr. E. White
29  C.W. Tozer
30  Thomas Robinson
31  P. Walsh
32  Mrs. C.F. Angus And Children
33  H.A. Webster
34  Mrs. A. Simpson
35  Miss Mary Simpson
36  Robert Simpson
37  Thompson Campbell And Family
38  T. Campbell, Jr.
39  B.T. Martin And Wife
40  A. Weill
41  D. Cahn
42  B.F. Kendall
43  B.W. Kimball
44  J.W. Fox
45  Mrs. Colonel Baker
46  Mrs. H. Branch And Children
47  Ms. C. Lux And Son
48  H. Hawes
Transcribed by Dee Sardoc
Stockton Daily Independent, Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
Contributed by Vern Dander a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
16 April 2008


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