I, John Deming do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that the following List or Manifest of Passengers, subscribed with my name, and now delivered by me to the collector of the Customs for the district of Philadelphia, contains to the best knowledge and belief, a just and true account of all the Passengers received on board the Brig Odessa whereof I am Master, from Madeira to the ______ 1838.

List of Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Brig Odessa whereof John Deming is Master, from Madeira, burthen one hundred eighty one tons.

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

    
 1   Tao di Almeida a Cerard  de la Figamiare  28  male  Potuguese Legation  Portugal   United States
 2   Edward K.                Penfold          31  male  merchant            England    Portugsl  
 3   Silvano Augusto          Marltins         19  male  merchant            Portugal   Portugal 
 4   Luis Furtunato           Marltins          6  male                      Portugal   Portugal
 5   Edward B.                Parkman          19  male  merchant            U. States  U. States  
 6*  Thomas Marie             Tellas           26  male  prophet             Portugal   Portugal  
   

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.


6  The words "calls himself a" were inserted above the word "prophet".

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

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

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