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Brig Boston


Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to Boston, Massachusetts
27 March 1860

Copy of Report and List of Passengers taken on board the Brig Boston of Halifax whereof ________ is master, burden 118 /95ths tons, bound from the port of Halifax for Boston.
Coloumns represent: name, age in years and months, sex, occupation, the country to which the severally belong, the country of which they intend to become inhabitants, *died on voyage.

  1  H A Taylor          22   m   farmer       Nova Scotia   U States   cabin
  2  John Higgins        26   m   farmer       Nova Scotia   U States   cabin
  3  John Higgins        19   m   joiner       Nova Scotia   U States   cabin
  4  Hugh Hannah         24   m   farmer       Nova Scotia   U States   cabin
  5  Hugh Lindsey        24   m   farmer       Nova Scotia   U States   cabin
  6* James Colden        22   m   farmer       Nova Scotia   U States   cabin
  7  W^m Clements        24   m   farmer       Nova Scotia   U States   cabin
  8  Miss Jane Lindsey   22   f                Nova Scotia   U States   cabin
  9* James Robias        18   m   boot maker   Nova Scotia   U States   steerage
 10  Mrs Gardner         45   f                Ireland       U States   steerage

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.

*  Names were transcribed as seen regardless of spelling.

*  Passengers where numbered by the transcribers for ease of referencing.

6: Surname may be Colder.
9: Surname may be Tobias.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M277, Reel 56.
Transcribed by Harry Green and Ines Mannhardt,
members of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
14 June 2006



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