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Brig Tacon


Hamburg, Germany to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
21 August 1838

Printed and sold by John C. Clark, 60 Dock Street, Philadelphia
No.8
REPORT OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Brig Tacon whereof Thomas Green is Master from Hamburg, burthen ______ tons, and owned by John Welsh of Philadelphia and bound to Philadelphia.
Columns represent: Passenger number*, name, age, sex, occupation, country they belong to, country they intend to reside*.
    
  1  Jacob      Hornet       40  male    merchant       United States 
  2  John       Reuson       20  male    merchant       United States 
  3  Christian  Schewening   35  male    weaver         United States
  4  H. W.      Placker      33  male    merchant       Saxony
  5  Edward     Faretner     32  male    watchmaker     Prussia
  6  Morrit     Wenckson     20  male    merchant       Meclenburg 
  7  Adam       Guyer        45  male    weaver         Germany   
  8  Herman     Reesin       25  male    printer        Germany
  9  John B.    Schaller     33  male    baker          Hesse  
 10  L. W.      Scheneke     30  male    stonemason     Prussia
 11  Simon      Jacob        31  male    harness maker  Denmark
 11  Jn^o M.    Dalbeck      52  male    merchant       Gottenburg 
 

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.
*  All passengers intended to reside in the United States so this column is not shown.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 53.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
24 May 2009



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