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Brig Pleiades

Newport, Wales to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2 August 1836

Printed and Sold by John C. Clark, 60 Dock Street, Philadelphia
No. 8
Report or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Brig Pleiades whereof Bary ? Welch is Master from Newport, Wales, burthen 284 11/95 tons, and owned by Freeman Clark & Others of Bath and bound to Philadelphia.
Columns represent: passenger number*, names, age, sex, occupation, to what country belonging*, and to what country intending to reside*, and baggage (reprted in transcriber's notes).
  1   W^m        Tampkin    44   male    mason
  2   Nancy      Tampkin    39   female
  3   W^m        Tamkin Jr  11   male
  4   John       Tampkin     8   male 
  5   Rachael    Tampkin     4   female
  6   Elizabeth  Tampkin    34   female
  7   James      Tampkin    10   male  
  8   Eliza      Tampkin    11   female
  9   John       Tampkin     6   male
 10   Margaret   Harris     30   female
 11   Isaac      Davis      53   male    farmer
 12   Maria      Davis      50   female
 13   James      Davis      13   male    
 14   George     Davis       8   male
 15   Ebeneezer  Davis      10   male
 16   Levi       Davis       7   male
 17   Protheroe  Protheroe  34   male    store keeper
 18*  ?eth       Protheroe  21   female  
  

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.
*  All passengers were from Gt. Britain and intended to reside in the U. States.


 1 - 5   were bracketed with 3 chests.
 6 - 9   were bracketed with 2 chests
10       had 3 chests.
11 - 16  were bracketed with two chests.
17, 18   bracketed with three chests.
18       Piece along the edge of the manifest had been torn away so that entire given
         name is not evident, it could be Elizabeth.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 51.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
31 March 2009

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