SS Peru
I, Daniel E Friele, Master of the Peru 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 Collection District of San Francisco, is a full and perfect list of all Chinese passengers taken on board the said vessel at Hong Kong and Yokohama from which port said vessel has now arrived, or that have been taken on board the said vessel at any foreign port or place, and of all such passengers now on board said vessel, and that on said List is truly designated the names and other particulars, as shown by their respective certificates.
So help me God. (signature) Daniel E Friele
Sworn to this 30* day of Mar 1898, before me, (signature) Charley Juilem, Deputy Collector of Customs
Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Peru whereof Daniel E Friele is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 2539.59 tons
Columns represent: Number, No of Certificate, Name, Age, Occupation*, Last Place of Residence*, Height*, Complexion*, Color of Eyes*, Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification*, If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts.
1 1 Gee Foo 20 Landed 21-Apr Native of US
2 2 Gee Fong Yin 23 Denied 30-Apr USDC Habeas Corpus Case 11437
3 3 Wong Fook Lun 26 Landed 21-Apr Native of US
4 7 Hong Tock 23 Landed 21-Apr Native of US
5* 8 Pung Lee 20 Landed 06-Apr Sec 6 Certificate
6* 9 Nim u 25 Landed 06-Apr Sec 6 Certificate
7* 14 Tat Lam 25 Landed 06-Apr Sec 6 Certificate
8 16 Wong Ark Leung 25 Landed 21-Mar Native of US
9 ? Leung Seung 35 Landed 05-Apr Return Laborer
10 19 Long Jun 35 Landed 05-Apr Return Laborer
11 20 Wong Sam 35 Landed 09-Apr Affidavit Merchant
12 23 Ung Fung Fong 29 Landed 05-Apr Affidavit Merchant
13 24 Hom Ung Ting 40 Landed 05-Apr Return Laborer
14 26 Wong Cheong 36 Landed 05-Apr Affidavit Merchant
15 27 Jee Lin 33 Landed 05-Apr Affidavit Merchant
16 28 Gee Fook Sing 24 Landed 22-Apr Native of US
17* 29 Chu Hing 15 Landed 13-Apr Native of US
18* 31 Chu Lin Fass 16 Landed 16-Apr Native of US
19 32 Lum Jew 27 Landed 05-Apr Return Laborer
20 33 Lam Lum 28 Landed 05-Apr Affidavit Merchant
21 34 Loui Pon 36 Landed 05-Apr Return Laborer
22 35 Li Lum Tak 20 Landed 20-Apr Native of US
23 38 Ng Hang 20 Landed 05-Apr Native of US
24 39 Yee Ben Kan 31 Landed 05-Apr Native of US
25 40 Yee Ah Sack 30 Landed 05-Apr Native of US
26 43 Jung Ah Fun 26 Landed 14-Apr Native of US
27 44 Leung Yeuck 42 Landed 05-Apr Return Laborer
28 45 Chu Fong 24 Landed 15-Apr Native of US
29 46 Woon Sing 36 Landed 06-Apr Affidavit Merchant
30 ? Mee Land 32 Landed 06-Apr Affidavit Merchant
31 ? Say Wong 29 Landed 09-Apr Affidavit Merchant
32 ? Lee ? 28 Landed 06-Apr Affidavit Merchant
33 ? Kong Ping 38 Landed 05-Apr Return Laborer
34 ? Tam Lee 20 Landed 20-Apr Native of US
35 ? Tam Wah 20 Landed 15-Apr Native of US
36 ? Li Kam Hoi 23 Landed 13-Apr Native of US
37 ? Li Ting Fong 46 Landed 09-Apr Affidavit Merchant
38 ? Li Po 31 Landed 05-Apr Return Laborer
39 ? Lee Chew 43 Landed 05-Apr Affidavit Merchant
40* ? Chan Yin Lee 12 Landed 06-Apr Sec 6 Certificate
41 ? Tan Joe Sun 36 Landed 05-Apr Affidavit Merchant
42 ? Tom Lee 33 Landed 05-Apr Affidavit Merchant
43 ? Pan Hoi Shing 23 Landed 20-Apr Return Laborer
44 ? Leang Nam 33 Landed 06-Apr Sec 6 Certificate
45 ? Chan Wai He 22 Landed 06-Apr Sec 6 Certificate
46 ? Pan Fu 22 Landed 06-Apr Sec 6 Certificate
47 ? Chan Kwai Ham 29 Landed 26-Apr Native of US
48 77 On Sam Choy 20 Landed 12-Apr Native of US
49 79 Chu Kee 22 Landed 20-Apr Native of US
50 80 Chu Kai 22 Landed 20-Apr Native of US
51 81 Tam Loy Shing 29 Landed 15-Apr Native of US
52 82 u Yuk Chin 26 Landed 06-Apr Sec 6 Certificate
53 83 Wong Tung Tat 19 Landed 06-Apr Sec 6 Certificate
54 84 Kong Tsok Ching 25 Landed 06-Apr Sec 6 Certificate
55 85 Lum Lao 22 Landed 16-Apr Native of US
56 86 Yan Hon 22 Landed 20-Apr Native of US
57* 87 Lam Fong 25 Landed 06-Apr Sec 6 Certificate
58* 88 Chun Kwan 17 Landed 06-Apr Sec 6 Certificate
59 91 Man Quong Den 20 Landed 05-Apr Affidavit Merchant
60 92 Wong Wo 28 Denied 03-May USDC Habeas Corpus Case 11440
61* 93 Sai Fong Tong 26 Landed 05-Apr Native of US
62* 97 Mrs Lee Mark S?ee 33 Landed 05-Apr Native of US
63* 95 Miss Lee Gum Young 10 Landed 05-Apr Native of US
64* 96 Miss Lee Mee Yung 5 Landed 05-Apr Native of US
65* 97 Miss Li Su Yung 3 Landed 05-Apr Native of US
66 98 E Sing 23 Landed 03-May Native of US
67* 100 Chang Wo 32 Landed 06-Apr Return Laborer Dep per SPRR April 2nd 1898
68* Y. Way Kong 30 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9152 Dep per SPRR April 2nd 1898
In Transit to New York
69 Lee Chung 21 Landed 05-Apr Return Laborer
70* Li F?ng 20 Landed 09-Apr Affidavit Merchant
In Transit to Torreon*
71 Ma Ying 30 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9133 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
72 Ma Seung 20 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9134 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
73 Ma Foon 23 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9135 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
74* Ma Tsa? 24 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9136 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
75 Lu Tung Yuk 48 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9137 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
In Transit to City of Mexico
76 u Hong Lam 20 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9146 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
77 u Wing Lee 36 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9147 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
78 u Han 55 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9148 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
79 u Yuen 35 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9149 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
80 u Tung 35 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9150 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
81 Lau Man 30 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9151 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
82 Lan Wai 23 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9152 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
83 Kong San 36 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9153 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
For Guaymas
84 Wong Ku Hon 26 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9154 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
85 Cheung Lai 23 Landed "I.T." Transit List ? Dep per City of Para April 13-'98
86 Ng u King 38 Landed "I.T." Transit List ? Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
87* Chen E 22 Landed 4-Apr
In Transit to Demerara*
88 Yeung E Luen 39 Dep per San Blas April 8, 1898
89 Yeung Ping Chan 45 Dep per San Blas April 8, 1898
In Transit to Panama
90 Wong Sung 34 Dep per San Blas April 8, 1898
91* Wong Tsa? 34 Dep per San Blas April 8, 1898
92 Chan Loy 49 Dep per San Blas April 8, 1898
93 Cheung Tsun 38 Dep per San Blas April 8, 1898
94 Chung Tun Sin 43 Dep per San Blas April 8, 1898
In Transit to Havana
95* Chin Hai 26 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9138
96* Chin Shing 37 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9139 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
67* Chin Tsun 37 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9140 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
98* Chin Lo 36 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9141 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
99* Chu Tsa? Hing 25 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9142 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
100* Li Ling Chu 22 Landed "I.T." Transit List 9143 Dep per SPRR April 5th 1898
Recapitulation
San Francisco 68
New York 2
Torreon 5
City of Mexico 8
Guaymas 4
Demerara 2
Panama 5
Havana 6
Total 100 95 men, 2 women, 3 child
Transcriber's Notes:
* An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder not the transcriber,
or is used to call attention to additional information in the transcriber notes.
Question marks replace illegible information or letters.
The Sworn Statement os dated Mar 30 but Mar 29 is in a note above and on the cover sheet.
The pages on this film are not numbered so finding a particular ship can be difficult.
However, there is a system of numbering the manifests that is a part of the National
Archives file system on Chinese persons. These numbers are included in the identification
of the film and reel numbers below.
For passengers bound for San Francisco, passengers' names and ages are followed by a stamp
that varies depending on the disposition of the passenger.
Passengers allowed to land have the following stamp:
Landed Collectors order (blank with a month and day date written in) 1896 by Insp's (blank
for a name, in this case O'Leary).
Passengers not allowed to land have one of two different stamps:
Landing Refused Habeas Corpus U.S.D.C. Case followed by a number. These passengers were
probably allowed to land, but not to freely enter the country. The National Archives
should have a file for these passengers describing what happened to them.
Landing Refused Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date).
For passengers bound for a further port there are two possible dispositions:
Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number
Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date)
Occupation of all passengers is Grocer except as noted below
The following columns had no entries:
Last Place or Residence
Height
Complexion
Color of Eyes
Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification
Torreon is in central Mexico. Demerara is in Guyana.
An Affidavit Merchant is a document created by the passenger before departing the US. It
is an affidavit signed by a number of white men in the town where the passenger resided
in the US to prove that he is/was a merchant. A Sec 6 Certificate is a document to prove
that the passenger is/was a merchant but created by the Chinese government in China.
There are a number of passengers listed as Return Laborer. When the Chinese Exclusion Act
was passed in 1882 a number of Chinese who had spent time in the US but had returned to
China at the time of the Act were excluded from returning to the US until 1894 when the act
was amended.
There a a number of passengers with u or U as a name. It is difficult to tell whether it is
upper case or lower case. It usually has a diacritical mark above it that could be a caret,
a tilde or even an acute accent.
According to the National Archives branch in San Bruno, California it is possible that they
have some information on any Chinese passenger who arrived in San Francisco after 1886.
5-6 Occupation is Accountant.
7 Occupation is Salesman.
17-18 Occpation is "with his brother."
40 Occupation is student.
57 Occupation is Accountant.
58 Occupation is student.
61-62 Occupation is "wife merchant".
63-65 Occupation is "child merchant".
67-68 Something illegible is written in the right margin of these two passengers.
68 Occupation is "Interpreter to Ms Tsell (best reading of this name) in transit to London."
70 Second name is Fing, Fang or Fung
74,91 Second name is Tsan or Tsau.
87 "Landed by Collector April 8/98, stature is illegible.
95 "Landed by Collector April 14/98, Native US."
96-98 There is a note for these passengers " Returned from New Orleans on account of blockade.
Application to land as Natives of US denied by the Collector. writs USDC 11434, 11435,
11436."
100 Returned from New Orleans Landed by Collector May 7/98.
95-100 These passengers in transit to Havana were not allowed to go by sea from New Orleans
probably because of a blockade in place as a result of the Spanish American War.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1414, Reel 6, Section 3, Vol. 38 & 39, Manifest 9620.
Transcribed by Fran Taylor, a member of the
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24 December 2007
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