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Sloop Friendship


New Orleans, Louisiana to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
22 April 1800

No. 1 Form of a Report and Manifest for a Ship or Vessel of the United States, from a Foreign Port.
Report and Manifest of the Cargo laden on board the Sloop Friendship whereof David Brown is master, which cargo was taken on board at New Orleans, LA burthen 95+71/95 tons, built at Newbury in the State of New York and owned by Whitten Evans merchant at Philadelphia as per Register granted at Philadelphia the 4 day of June 1798 and bound for Philadelphia.
Columns represent: Line number; Marks; Number inclusive; Packages and contents; by whom shipped; To whom configured, or if to configured; Place of Configuree's residence; ports of destination.
    
E   1@74   Seventy four hogsheads molasses      Meriot Sebins   John B Evans   Philadelphia   Philadelphia
           two tons logwood
    1@30   thirty bales cotton
    1@8    three barrels & five tiners indigo
    1@15   fifteen barrels rice
           two barrels mitts Johnson?                           to order
           four new bundles moss                David Brown     David Brown


one steerage passenger                                          no alien passengers
   1 James Smith   citizen of the US, no baggage                no impressment

one barrel beef                                                 letters dele^d Port Office
four barrels pork
three barrels bread

                                                  signed: David Brown
   

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.

^ Indicates letters are omitted and the following letter is superscripted.


National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 1.
Transcribed by Harry Green, formatted by Ines Mannhardt,
members of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
3 May 2008



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