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Brig Rebecca Francis
San Juan, Porto Rico to Baltimore, Maryland September 4, 1833.
A list of pafsengors* on board the Brig Rebecca Francis, Capt Borum* from St Johns Port ??* Sept 4 1833* Sworn to before me this 4?* day of Sept 1833 by Capt Bourm*. Jesse Hunt, Mayor.
Columns represent: given name, surname, age.
1 Emilie Vincent 40 years
2 Mathew Francis 25*
Transcriber's Notes:
* Indicates a word or omission or error made by the orginial recorder.
? Indicates a word or letter that could not be read, due to quality of the orginal document.
Leading "s", this is probably passengers
Note that this document appears to have been written completely by the same person, and the Captains name is spelt two ways, Borum and Bourm.
Appears to be Ports, but is crossed out and above it is hand printed Rebecca Francis ????? Sept. 4, 1833 Mark (underlined) - City (circled).
4 has a scrawled line after it could be "th".
Jefse, could be using Leading "s", could be Jesse.
Jesse Hunt was the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland from 1832 to 1835. http://www.ci.baltimore.md.us/government/h_mayors/mayorlst.html
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M255, Reel 1.
Transcribed by Terry Cook for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild 22 March 1999
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