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SS Dakota


Liverpool, England to New York
26 December 1876

DISTRICT OF NEW YORK - PORT OF NEW YORK
I, James B Price, Master of the Steamship Dakota, 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 New York, is a full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board the said vessel at Liverpool from which port said vessel has now arrived; and that on said list is truly designated the age, the sex and the occupation of each of said passengers, the part of the vessel occupied by each during the passage, the country to which each belongs, and also the country of which it is intended by each to become an inhabitant; and that said List or Manifest truly sets forth the number of said passengers who have died on said voyage, and the names and ages of those who died.
Sworn to this Dec 26 1876
So help me God,
(signed) James B Price
before me ________________(illegible signature)
List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Steamship Dakota whereof James B Price, is master, from Liverpool, burthen 2482 tons.
Columns represent: Names, age in years and months, sex, occupation, the country to which they severally belong, the country of which they intend to become inhabitants, died on voyage, part of the vessel occupied by each passenger during the voyage.
  1  John      Fulhaber      30     male     lab^r    Germany   U.S.A.   steerage
  2  Angeline  Faulhaber     30     female   matron   Germany   U.S.A.   steerage
  3  Reinhold  Schmidt       28     male     lab^r    Germany   U.S.A.   steerage
  4  Herman    Lembike       17     male     lab^r    Germany   U.S.A.   steerage
  5  Johann    Schnerberger  17     male     lab^r    Germany   U.S.A.   steerage
  6  Fried     Sherkin       21     male     lab^r    Germany   U.S.A.   steerage
  7  Louis     Iverson       57     male     lab^r    Norway    U.S.A.   steerage 
  8* Ingeborg  Iverson       19     female   spins    Ireland   U.S.A.   steerage 
  9  Michael   Flynn         50     male     lab^r    Ireland   U.S.A.   steerage  
 10  Thomas    Grogan        24     male     lab^r    Ireland   U.S.A.   steerage  
 11  Matthew   Gallagher     45     male     lab^r    Ireland   U.S.A.   steerage  
 12  Eliza     Samuels       26     female   spins    Ireland   U.S.A.   steerage  
 13  Eliza     MacCoy        28     female   spins    Scotand   U.S.A.   steerage      
 14  John      Walton        49     male     lab^r    Scotland  U.S.A.   steerage 
 15  Henry     Ellis         32     male     lab^r    Scotland  U.S.A.   steerage   
 16  Thomas    Dicilla       29     male     lab^r    Italy     U.S.A.   steerage   
 17  Antonio   Valenetti     30     male     lab^r    Italy     U.S.A.   steerage   
 18* ??ocenzo  Valenetti     59     male     lab^r    Italy     U.S.A.   steerage   
 19  Saverio   Valenetti     57     male     lab^r    Italy     U.S.A.   steerage   
 20  Angelio   Valenetti     47     male     lab^r    Italy     U.S.A.   steerage   
 21  Annie     Gibbon        24     female   spins    England   U.S.A.   steerage
 22  William J Gilbert       35     male     gent     U.S.A.    U.S.A.   cabin
 23  M^rs      Gilbert       32     female   lady     U.S.A.    U.S.A.   cabin
 24  Marian    Gilbert        5     female   child    U.S.A.    U.S.A.   cabin
 25  John      Gilbert        3     male     child    U.S.A.    U.S.A.   cabin
 26  Chas      Griffith      56     male     gent     U.S.A.    U.S.A.   cabin
 27  Mary A.   Wallace       30     female   lady     U.S.A.    U.S.A.   cabin
 28  Baby      Wallace         10m  female   inft     U.S.A.    U.S.A.   cabin
 29  W^m       Hawkins       35     male     gent     U.S.A.    U.S.A.   cabin
 30  Sarah A   Hawkins       30     female   lady     U.S.A.    U.S.A.   cabin        
 31  Hannah    Bardsley      35     female   lady     U.S.A.    U.S.A.   cabin        
 32  James     Morris        22     male     gent     England   U.S.A.   cabin
 33  Anthony   Morris        19     male     gent     England   U.S.A.   cabin
 34  Lewis     June          40     male     gent     U.S.A.    U.S.A.   cabin  
 35  ??        Bailey        38     male     gent     U.S.A.    U.S.A.   cabin  
                                            
                                                 signed: unreadable


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.

^ Indicates letters are omitted and the following letter is superscripted.


  8  Passenger's country of origin may be Norway. Ireland probably pertains
     to the next passenger as his country of origin (Gt Britain) was crossed
     out and Ireland had been written in the space above.
 18  Given name may be Inocenzo.
 35  Manifest had been cut through this line making the initials of the given
     and middle names unreadable.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 406, List 1191.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
2 April 2008



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