Schooner Phebe Baxter
Report and Manifest of all the Cargo laden on board the Schooner Phebe Baxter whereof Atherton H. Baker is Master, which cargo was taken on board at Pictou, Nova Scotia, burthen ninety tons, built at Dartmouth in the State of Massachussets and owned by Atheron Baker, Obed. Baxter Grant & Elijah Baxter merchants at Dennis as per register granted at Phil^a the Eighteenth day of April 1838 and bound for the Port of Philadelphia.
Columns represent: Packages and contents, by whom shipped, to whom consigned or if to order, place of consignee's, port of destination.
Ninety chaldrons* of Albion* Coals General Mining Assoc. Thomas Eaton? Phil^a Phil^a 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. * Albion Coal mines were located in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, six and a half miles from the port of Pictou. * A Chaldron is a unit of measure that is equal to about 32 dry bushels.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 53.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
21 May 2009
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