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Schooner Happy Couple

*Cape Francois, Haiti to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
28 February 1800

No. I. 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 Schooner Happy Couple whereof John Tremals is master, which cargo was taken on board at *Cape Francois burthen 77 69/95 tons, built at Hudson in the State of New York and owned by William Lynch merchant at Philadelphia as per Register granted at Philadelphia the 17th day of July 1797 and bound for Philadelphia via N York
Columns headings are: 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.
WL       1 @  45   45 hogsheads sugar                     {                      
         1 @  19   nineteen barrels sugar                 {
         1 @ 517   five hundred & seventeen bags coffee   { John Tremells   William Lynch   Philadelphia   Philadelphia   
         1 @   3   barrels coffee                         {
WW       1 @   6   six bags coffee                        {
               1   eight thousand & twenty pounds dogwood
H        --        twenty five bags coffee 
                   five hundred oranges                                      W^m Hudson
Stores:   one barrel bread, half barrel beef, one cask ligiens, 
          half bag coffee

Passenger: 
1   Peter Hass - 2 trunks, bed, bedding

                                          signed: Philadelphia March 11, 1800
                                                  J^a Tremells


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 letters are omitted and the following letter is superscripted.

* Francois is spelled with c cedille.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 1.
Transcribed by Harry Green, formatted by Ines Mannhardt, members of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
20 April 2008


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