Brig Highlander
REPORT OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Brig Highlander whereof Don. Skinn is Master from Pictou, Nova Scotia, burthen 180 tons, and owned by ________ of _________ and bound to Philadelphia.
Columns represent: Passenger number*, given name, last name, age, sex, occupation*, country from where they came*, and where they intended to reside*.
1* ?iam Reck 40 2 Jane Reck 36 3 James Reck 14 4 John Reck 12 5 Jane Reck 10 6 Isabella Reck 7 7 William Reck 4 8 William Thomson 30 9 Marg^t Thomson 26 10 Jno. Thomson 87 11 Abram Thomson 24 12 Ann Thomson 7 13 Jno. Thomson 5 14 Alex Thomson 3 15 Jesse Thomson 15m 16 Sam^l Creed 48 17 Eliza Creed 46 18 Mary Ann Creed 14 19 William Creed 12 20 Betsey Creed 10 21 Caroline Creed 6 22 Jno. Creed 5 23 Samuel Creed 3 24 David Creed 15m 25 Charles Moore 22 26 William Moore 3 27 Ann Moore 33 28 Ann Moore 4m 29 Jane Young 11 30 John Young 9 31 Marg^t Young 7 32 George Young 4 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 farmers and intended to reside in Ohio so these columns are not shown. * All passengers came from Nova Scotia so this column is not shown. 1 First part of given name is blacked out by damage to manifest, name may be William.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 52.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
26 April 2009
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