No.8
REPORT OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Ship Desdemona* whereof A. G. Hamilton is Master from Amsterdam, burthen 294 74/95 tons, and owned by J. Pell, W.W. Pell and Matin R. Tabuskie of New York and bound to Philadelphia.

Columns represent: Passenger number*, name, age, sex, occupation, country they belong to*, country they intend to reside*.

    
  1  Jacob       Fewer        24   male    farmer
  2* Cath^e      Fewer        39   female
  3  --          Fewer        13   --      child 
  4  --          Fewer         ?   --      child
  5  --          Fewer         ?   --      child
  6  --          Fewer         ?   --      child
  7  --          Fewer         1   --      child
  8  Peter       Homan        30   male    farmer
  9  --          Homan         7   --      child
 10  Lorenzo     Bretch       55   male    farmer  
 11* Christina   Bretch       23   female  child   
 12  --          Bretch       21   --      child
 13  --          Bretch        ?   --      child
 14  --          Bretch        ?   --      child
 15  --          Bretch        ?   --      child
 16  --          Bretch        ?   --      child
 17  --          Bretch        ?   --      child 
 18  --          Bretch        5   --      child
 19  Philp A.    Weber        30   male    farmer
 20* Christine   Weber        23   female
 21  --          Weber         ?   --      child
 22  Maria E.    Eckery       18   female         
 23  Jacob       Schroth      21   male    farmer 
 24  George P.   Betz         32   male    farmer
 25* A Catina?   Betz         33   female 
 26  --          Betz         11   --      child  
 27  --          Betz          ?   --      child 
 28  --          Betz          ?   --      child
 29  --          Betz          6   --      child
 30  Jacob W.    Schroth      33   male    farmer   
 31  Bolbra      Schroth      33   female
 32  Catharine   Schroth      61   female  
 33  John H.     Jost         62   male    farmer   
 34* Susan^h     Jost         52   female 
 35  --          Jost         16   --      child
 36  --          Jost          ?   --      child
 37  --          Jost         11   --      child
 38  Philip      Weimer?      44   male    farmer  
 39* Susan^h     Weimer?      38   female   
 40  --          Weimer?       ?   --      child 
 41  --          Weimer?       ?   --      child 
 42  --          Weimer?       ?   --      child 
 43  --          Weimer?       ?   --      child 
 44  --          Weimer/       3   --      child 
 45  Henrick     Schroth      25   male    painter
 46  John        Keise        23   male    weaver   
 47  Eliz^h      Pfister      46   female 
 48  Margeriet   Pfister       9   female
 49  Joseph      Muleck       31   male    farmer 
 50  John A.     Loffer       32   male    farmer
 51  Frederick   Smith        32   male    farmer
 52  Juliana     Smith        13   female
 53  Frank       Smith         4   male 
 54  Margaret    Smith         2   female            
 55  Ludwick     Keigler      18   male    baker


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 to aid search.
*  Ancestry.com called this ship Desdamonal.
*  All passengers were from Germany and intended to reside in the United States so these
   columns are not shown 

*  The manifest listed the children with their mothers, so their names and sexes are not
   known. On this transcription the children are listed as separate passengers with whatever
   information is known. The way they are listed in the manifest is as follows:

 2 Listed as Cath^a Fewer and five children ages 1 to 13. 
11 Listed as Christina Bretch and seven children, ages 5 to 21.
20 Listed as Christine Webber and one child, aged 1. 
25 Listed as A Catina? Betz and three children, ages 6 to 11.
34 Listed as Susan^h Josgh and three children, ages 10 to16.
39 Listed as Susan^h Weimer? and five children, ages 3 to 16.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 53.

Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
25 May 2009

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