Schooner Edwin
This was a hand written manifest, not printed, and the usual printed introductory paragraph and information is not evident here. The handwritten introduction is "List of Passengers. Report and List of the Passengers taken on board the Schooner Edwin of Sabonr? whereof R. M^cKenzie is Master, Burthen one hundred & seventy tons & 82/95^ths of a ton bound from the Port of North Sydney, Cape Breton for Philadelphia."
Columns represent: Passenger numbers*, Names, age, sex, occupation, country to which they severally belonged, country to which they intend to beome residents*.
1 John Davis 46 male miner South Wales
2 Sarah Davis 45 female domestic South Wales
3 David Davis 12 male ? lad South Wales
4 John Davis 7 male ? lad South Wales
5 Eben Davis 5 male ? lad Cape Briston
6 Duncan Morrison 21 male miner Scotland
7 Eliz^th Morrison 15 female domestic South Wales
8 Rachel Maines 27 female domestic Cape Breton
9 Sarah Maines 8 female child Cape Breton
10 Easter Maines 4 female child Cape Breton
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.
* Passenger numbers assigned by transcriber for ease of reference.
* Names were transcribed as seen regardless of spelling.
* All passengers intended to reside in Pennsylvania so this column is not shown.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 51.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
25 March 2009
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