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Brig Madrid


Trinidad de Cuba, Cuba to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19 August 1842

Printed and sold by John C. Clark, 60 Dock Street, Philadelphia.
[No.2.]
REPORT AND MANIFEST of the Cargo laden on board the Brig Madrid whereof Alexander Anderson is Captain, which Cargo was taken on board at Trinidad De Cuba, burthen 164 18/95 tons, built at Lincolnsville in the State of Maine and owned by Sam^l & Will^m Welsh merchant at Philadelphia as per Register, granted at Philadelphia the first day of September 1838 and bound for Philadelphia.
Coloums represent: Marks, numbers inclusive, packages and contents, by whom shipped, to whom consigned, or if so to order, place of consignee's residence.
  S  1@39   Thirty nine boxes of brown sugar.............
  A  1@156  One hundred and fifty six boxes brown sugar..  
  C  4@44   five boxes cucurucha segars..................Pie Bastida & Sons  Sam^l & William Welsh  Philadelphia
 SB  !@200  two hundred boxes cucurucha segars...........Pie Bastida & Sons  Sam^l & William Welsh  Philadelphia
  B  2@450  two hundred fifty boxes cucurucha segars.....Pie Bastida & Sons  Sam^l & William Welsh  Philadelphia
  B  1@110  one hundred ten boxes cucurucha segars.......Pie Bastida & Sons  Sam^l & William Welsh  Philadelphia
     1@20   twenty hogheads molasses.....................Pie Bastida & Sons  Sam^l & William Welsh  Philadelphia
       1    one barrel brown sugar..............................             Anderson                

Cabin Passenger:
 1  Joseph Simeon Bastida, luggage 2 trunks and hat case


List of Stores:
forty pounds sugar
forty [pounds coffee
twenty gallons molasses
signed: Alexander Anderson

I Certify that the within was produced to me as a true copy of the original manifest 
of cargo on board the Brig Madrid.
signed L F Donnell, Insp
Philad^a, August 18, 1842
   

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.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 59.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
12 October 2009



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