Immigrant Ships
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SS Palestine

I, William Whiteway*, Master of the SS PALESTINE do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that the following List or Manifest, subscribed by me, and now  delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs of the Port of Boston, is a  full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board the said vessel at L Pool from which port said vessel has now arrived; and that on said list is truly designated the age, sex, calling, country of citizenship, native country, intended destination or location, number of pieces of baggage, location of compartment or space occupied, and date and cause of death of passengers as required by the Passenger Act of 1882; also a true statement, so far as it can be ascertained, with reference to the intention of each alien passenger as to a protracted sojourn in this country.  So help me God.  Sworn to this 27th May ????, W Whitiway*, Master, before me ???????

List or Manifest of all the passengers taken on board the PALESTINE whereof William Whiteway* is Master, from Lpool burthern 2128 tons.

Columns represent: name, age, sex, occupation, the country of which they are citizens, native country, intended destination or location. The following columns, no. of pieces of baggage, location of compartment or space occupied, date and cause of death, whether visitor only or intending to be permanent have no entires; therefore they are not included below.

 

 1  Frank Incon        36 m cattleman  England  Ireland         Boston
 2  John McGreul       24 m cattleman  British  Ireland         Boston
 3  James McHugh       24 m cattleman  America  Ireland         Boston
 4  William Turner     24 m cattleman  America  Liverpool       Boston
 5  John Bremnan       21 m cattleman  Ireland  Ireland         Boston
 6  John Dwyer         21 m cattleman  America  Lowell, Mass    Boston
 7  Inoris Griffon     23 m cattleman  America  Boston          Boston
 8  David Shay         23 m cattleman  America  Boston          Boston
 9* William McLaugh??? 21 m cattleman  Ireland  Ireland         Boston
10  John Corley        18 m cattleman  America  Boston          Boston
11  Patrick Shay       24 m cattleman  America  Boston          Boston

(Working their Passage)

12  John McCormick     44 m cattleman  America  Boston          Boston
13  William Wallace    32 m cattleman  America  Brunswick       Boston

(Stowaways)
14  William Edwards    17 m laberer    England  England         Fall River
15* William Taylor     34 m ma????ic   America  State of Allaba
16  Joseph Ryan        26 m cattleman  America  Philadelphia    Boston

16 males steerage 

US Citizens 11
Immigrants   5

England 3
Ireland 2

cattlemen
US Cit      7
England     2
Ireland     2

Immigrants not in the US before 1 = 50c

Port of Boston
May 27, 1890

Daniel Mahoney (signature)
Bdg Officer


Transcriber's notes: 
The use of an * indicates an omission or error made by the original recorder.

The use of a ? indicates a word or letters that could not be read, due to 
quality of original document.

* Although the year can not be read at the beginning of the list, it is clearly
written at the end as May 27, 1890.

* The Captain's name is Whiteway in 2 places and Whitiway in one place.

 9  McLaughter or McLaughlin
15  Ink blot on page, 1st & last 2 letters are clear, 4th letter is tall,
    perhaps an h.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M277, Reel 112.