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Ship North Star


Liverpool, England to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
9 September 1836

Printed and Sold by John C. Clark, 60 Dock Street, Philadelphia
Report or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Ship North Star whereof Isbon Benedict is Master from Liverpool, England, burthen 398 81/95 tons, and owned by Isaac Lloyd & Son of Philadelphia and bound to Philadelphia.
Columns represent: passenger number*, names, age, sex, occupation, to what country belonging, and to what country intending to reside.
  1  John           M^cThinsic   22  male    merchant    U. States    S. Carolina
  2* Thompson       Shephardson  21  male    farmer      U. States    Wilmington, Del  Landed at Lewiston 
  3* M^rs Isabella  Shephardson  21  female              U. States    Wilmington, Del  Landed at Lewiston
  4* David          Shephardson  18  male    farmer      U. States    Wilmington, del  Landed at Lewiston
  5  William        Gillian      40  male    merchant    U. States    Nashville    
  6  M^rs Frances   Gillian      40  fmale               U. States    Nashville
  7  Miss Frances   Gillian      17  fmale               U. States    Nashville    
  8  William        Gillian      13  male                U. States    Nashville    
  9  John           Gillian      10  male                U. States    Nashville    
 10  Margret        Gillian       8  fmale               U. States    Nashville          
 11  Mary Jane      Gillian       6  fmale               U. States    Nashville       
 12  John           Jackson      37  male    merchanick  U. States    Alexandria 
 13  Mariah         Jackson      23  fmale               U. States    Alexandria   
 14  Joseph         Jackson      11  male                U. States    Alexandria 
 15* Richard M.     Jones        45  male                U. States    Alabama 
 16* John           Bishop       32  male                U. States    Alabama          Landed at Newcastle
 17* Andrew         Smith        19  male                U. States    Alabama          Landed at Newcastle
 18* ?              ?            45                      New Jersey   ?                Landed at Newcastle
 19* ?              ?            ?                       Indiana?     Ind. 
 20* William        William      18  male   ?             ?            ?
 21* Mathew         W?           21  male   ?             ?            ?               landed at ?(blscked out)
 22* Frank          Brown        18  male                 ?            ?               Landed at ?(blacked out)
 23* William        Barefoot     21  male                 ?            ?               Landed at ?
 24* Henry          Smith        29  male                 ?            ?               landed at Lewistown
 25* James          Booth        29  male                 ?            ?               landed at New Castle
 26  James          Denbey       32  male                 ?            ?
 27  Ruth           Denbey       29  fmale                ?            ?
 28  John           Denbey        8  male                 ?            ?         
 29  Margret        Denbey        6  fmale                ?            ?
 30  Joseph         Glespie      30  male    ?            Ireland      ?
 31  Sarah          Glespie      21  fmale                Ireland      ?
 32  John           Donald       24  male                 England      ?               landed at New Castle
 33  Mary           Donald       12  fmale                England      ?               landed at New Castle
 34  William        Howard       15  male                 England      ?               landed at New Castle


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.


* 2, 3, 4, and 15 through 25 ages had been lined through for some unknown reason.
* 2 though 4 sex had been lined through.
* 17 through 22 all or parts of the lines were blacked out by some kind of damage.
  This made some information for passengers listed below this area unknown.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 51.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
6 April 2009



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