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Brig Cumberland


Santiago de Cuba, Cuba to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
10 March 1837

Printed for J.H. Barnes, Ship & Insurance Broker,
opposite the Custom House, Philadelphia
C. 3
Report or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Brig Cumberland whereof Powell Smack is Master from Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, burthen 155 tons, and owned by B. S. Burling & Powell Smack of Phildelphia 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      Caparis    35    male    U. States 
  2   John      Leonard    24    male    U. States
  3   Bertaldo  Mesertro   30    male    Spain
  4*  Hasan     Widel?     38    male    Spain
   

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 intended to reside in the U. States so this columns is not shown.
*  All passengers were merchants so column for Occupations is not shown.


4  First letter of surname was overwritten and name could be Videl.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 52.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
12 April 2009



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