Peru
I, Danl E Friele, Master of the Peru do solemnly, sincerely, 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 Hong Kong 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, and that on said List is truly designated the names and other particulars, as shown by their respective certificates.So help me God. (signature) Danl E Friele
Sworn to this 17* day of Jan 1898, before me, (signature) NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs
Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Peru whereof Danl E Friele is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 2539.59 tons
Columns represent: Number, No of Certificate, Name, Age, Occupation*, Last Place of Residence*, Height*, Complexion*, Color of Eyes*, Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification*, If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts.
1 1 Leo Lung 27 Omaha Landed 21-Jan Affidavit Merchant
2 2 Jun Yuen 34 San Francisco Landed 20-Jan Affidavit Merchant
3 4 Jeang Ying 39 San Francisco Landed 20 Jan Return Laborer
4* 5 Chin H?n 30 Landed 25-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
5 8 Chin Bing 35 Oakville Cal Landed 21-Jan Affidavit Merchant
6 9 Look You Eli 20 Mendocino Cal Landed 20-Jan Native US
7* 10 Sam Ho Kee 15 Landed 19-Feb Native US
8 11 Hong Lee 30 Urbano Ohio Landed 21-Jan Affidavit Merchant
9 12 Low Yun 31 San Jose Landed 21-Jan Affidavit Merchant
10 13 Low Chin 38 San Francisco Landed 20-Jan Affidavit Merchant
11 14 Kwong Soon 45 Landed 20-Jan Return Laborer
12 15 Kwang Hong 20 Landed 21-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
13 16 Ng Chai Yow 20 Landed 01-Feb Native US
14 17 Chun Tung 31 San Francisco Landed 20-Jan Affidavit Merchant
15* 18 Lui Fook Tun 26 Landed 01-Feb Native US
16 22 Choy Wah 36 Butte Mont Landed 21-Jan Affidavit Merchant
17 23 Jung Yen Quong 23 Virginia City Landed 21-Jan Affidavit Merchant
18 24 Li Chuck 26 Landed 25-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
19 25 Ho Fat 27 Landed 25-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
20 26 Lun Ping Yee 20 San Francisco Landed 15-Feb Native US
21 27 Hun Sum 39 Marysville Landed 21-Jan Affidavit Merchant
22* 21 Lun Yow 20 San Francisco Landed 01-Feb Native US
23 28 Lee Hing 20 San Francisco Landed 25-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
24 31 Cho Chu 20 Landed 04-Feb Native US
25 32 Low Fong 20 Landed 04-Feb Native US
26 33 Lai Yi Kwong 40 Landed 21-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
27 36 Wong Ye Yeun 46 Landed 20-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
28* 37 Wong Leang 19 Landed 20-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
29* 38 Hon Kew 24 Landed 02-Feb Native US
30* ? Gee Ho? ?o?i 32 Oakland Landed 20-Jan Affidavit Merchant
31 33 Soong Kong 27 Landed 01-Feb Native US
32* 42 Lo Pui 20 Landed ?-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
33* 43 U Sik Tsan 16 Landed ?-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
34 44 Chan Lin 22 Landed 26-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
35 45 Song Moon 20 Landed 21-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
36 46 Chin Pak 32 Landed 25-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
37* 47 Ng Lan 32 Los Angeles Landed 11-Feb Affidavit Merchant
38 48 Wong Sing 32 Grass Valley Landed 21-Jan Affidavit Merchant
39 49 Bo Sang Hong 41 Chico Landed 21-Jan Affidavit Merchant
40 50 Li On 38 Landed 25-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
41* 51 Tam Sheung 12 Landed 25-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
42* 52 Law Yok 32 San Francisco Landed 20-Jan Mcht's wife
43* 53 Poon Ho 13 San Francisco Landed 20-Jan Native US
44* 54 Poon Ming Sun 4 San Francisco Landed 20-Jan Native US
45* 55 Jew ?ung P?? 11 San Francisco Landed 20-Jan Native US
46 56 T?? ? 26 San Francisco Landed 21-Jan Native US
47* 57 Leung Cho 12 Landed 04-Feb Native US
48 58 Im Young 37 Landed 21-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
49 59 Wong Chin 27 Landed 21-Jan Sec 6 Certificate
50* 62 Mrs Wong Yuk Sing 17 Landed 05-Feb Native US
51* 67 Lee Yee Sum 24 Landed 20-Jan Native US
In transit for New York
52 Lee Guy 23 New York Refused Dep per Str Rio de Janeiro Feb 12, 1898
In transit for City of Mexico
53 6 Kam Lui Sing 34 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9062 Dep per SPRR January 22nd 1898
54* 7 Lee Sam 21 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9063 Dep per SPRR January 22nd 1898
55 9 Tam Ting 38 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9064 Dep per SPRR January 22nd 1898
56 34 Tam Pun 50 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9065 Dep per SPRR January 22nd 1898
57 35 Lee Chin 25 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9066 Dep per SPRR January 22nd 1898
58 40 Tam Wo Shun 46 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9067 Dep per SPRR January 22nd 1898
In transit for Guaymas
59 Yan Lum 49 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9068 Dep per SPRR January 22nd 1898
60 Yan Foo 30 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9069 Dep per SPRR January 22nd 1898
Recapitulation
San Francisco 51
New York 1
City of Mexico 6
Guaymas 2
60
Transcriber's Notes:
* An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder not the transcriber,
or is used to call attention to additional information in the transcriber notes.
Question marks replace illegible information or letters.
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.
The date of the Sworn Statement is January 17, but Jan 16 is written in above it. Jan 16 is
also the date on the cover sheet.
For passengers bound for San Francisco, passengers' names and ages are followed by a stamp
that varies depending on the disposition of the passenger.
Passengers allowed to land have the following stamp:
Landed Collectors order (blank with a month and day date written in) 1898 by Insp's (blank
for a name, in this case O'Leary).
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. The National Archives
should have a file for these passengers describing what happened to them.
Landing Refused Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date).
For passengers bound for a further port there are two possible dispositions:
Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number
Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date)
Occupation is Merchant fro all passengers except as noted below.
The blanks in the Last Residence column could have unrecognized ditto marks making the entry
the same as the one above.
The following columns had no entries:
Height
Complexion
Color of Eyes
Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification
An Affidavit Merchant is a document created by the passenger before departing the US. It
is an affidavit signed by a number of white men in the town where the passenger resided in
the Us to prove that he is/was a merchant. A Sec 6 Certificate is a document to prove that
the passenger is/was a merchant but created by the Chinese government in China.
There a a number of passengers with u or U as a name. It is difficult to tell whether it is
upper case or lower case. It usually has a diacritical mark above it that could be a caret,
a tilde or even an acute accent.
Numerical notations for passengers most likely are entries relating to later travel.
They can be interpreted by contacting Bill Green, the Chinese specialist at NARA
in San Bruno, California.
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.
4 Second name is Han or Hun. Occupation is Salesman.
7 Occupation is with cousin. 12017/3031 is written on the line.
15 3227/4-1 is written on the line.
22 Occupation is son of Trader.
28 Ocupation is with his father.
29 Occupation is illegible, could be nephew.
30 Second name could be Hoi. Third name looks like xoce or noce, with lower case x or n.
32 Occupation is Student.
33 Occupation is with his cousin #42.
37 13415/11-3 is written on the line.
41 Occupation is Student.
42 Occupation is illegible, could be with her boy.
43-45 Occupation is child.
43 Age is written to the left of the usual column. Although it not explicitly stated that
she is female, there are other passengers otherwise identified as female who have this
same type of entry for age.
45 Second name is Fung or Tung.
47 Occupation is with brother #48
50-51 European Steerage is noted in the margin.
50 Occupation is wife.
54 Occupation is with her husband.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1414, Reel 6, Section 3, Vol. 38 & 39, Manifest 9611.
Transcribed by Fran Taylor, a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
1 April 2008
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