Manifest of the Cargo laden on the board the Brig Nikolai of New York, whereof Cha^s Jn^o Merry is Master, which Cargo was taken on board at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil burthen 235 80/95 tons, built at New Castle in the State of Maine and owned by Henry & William Delafield (?) Merchants, at New York as per Register, granted at New York the 13th September 1830; and bound for Philadelphia.

Columns represent: marks, numbers, packages and contents, by whom shipped, to whom consigned, place of consignees' residence*, port of destination*.

    
  T   ....... one hundred and twenty five bags  coffee......Jn^o Solomon....Jn^o Solomon  
  S   ........twenty two bags coffee........................Jn^o Solomon....Jn^o Solomon  
  B       44..four (Allage?) bags coffee....................Jn^o Solomon....Jn^o Solomon   
  M   ........thirteen hundred and eight bags coffee........Jn^o Solomon....Jn^o & others  
  b   ........five hundred and one bags coffee..............Brick head ?...order
  s   ........four hundred & thirty six bags coffee.........Jn^o Solomon....Jn^o Solomon  
  B   ........three hundre & fifteen bags coffee............Jn^o Solomon....Jo^s Baily  
  A   ........twenty two bags coffee........................Jn^o Solomon....Dan^l P. Austin
  B   ..1@4...four packages of drugs?.......................William Berg....Louis Kreumbhaas?
MW Wilmington, Del.   one bag coffee........................W^m H D'l Wright...Jn^o Solomon  
..............one barrel sugar..............................W^m H D'l Wright...Jn^o Solomon  
..............one case mdse.................................W^m H D'l Wright...Jn^o Solomon  

Store remaining on board:
three barrels beef                             Passenger: M^r Jn^o Solomon - 3 trunks, writing
one barrel pork                                                              desk & bedding
sixty lbs coffee
seventy lbs sugar
all of these items are bracketed with the phrase: at sea Nov. 30th 1830

signed: Cha^s Jn^o Merry 


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.

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

 

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 47.