I, the undersigned, Consul of the United States of America for the Hawaiian Islands, do hereby certify that the persons hereafter named and described have engaged on board the Formosa of New Bedford whereof Luther J. Briggs is master, at the date on the terms herein below specified |
CITIZENS OR SUBJECTS |
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Joseph Pound | Gt Britain | 19 | 5 | 4 1/2 | light | brown |
Algernon S. Brown | U. S. A. | 17 | 5 | 7 1/2 | do | do |
Emile Vallet | France | 22 | 5 | 7 | do | do |
Henry Ashley | U. S. A. | 23 | 5 | 6 1/2 | do | do |
John Lewis | U. S. A. | 23 | 5 | 4 | do | sandy |
Manuel Roderick | Portugal | 34 | 5 | 8 3/4 | dark | black |
William Farmer | no protection [certificate, proving citizenship] | 17 | 5 | 8 3/4 | light | brown |
Aaron Mayo | do | 29 | 5 | 10 | black | wooly |
George C. Noyes | U. S. A. | 26 | 6 | light | sandy | |
Richard Tolbert | no protection [certificate, proving citizenship] | 25 | 5 | 8 1/2 | do | brown |
Robert Ellis | U. S. A. | 22 | 5 | 6 1/2 | do | do |
George [H. or K.] Prince | U. S. A. | 17 | 5 | 4 | black | wooly |
William H. Carr | U. S. A. | 24 | 5 | 11 1/2 | light | brown |
Edward McMannis | Gt. Britain | 17 | 5 | 5 | do | light |
Lemuel Dillingham | U. S. A. | 39 | 5 | 6 | do | brown & bald |
John Miller | no protection [certificate, proving citizenship] | 42 | 5 | 7 | dark | brown |
Nicholas Fatuna | Roratonga Isls | 22 | 5 | 7 1/2 | copper | black | Sidney D. Nichols | no protection [certificate, proving citizenship] | 24 | 5 | 11 | light | brown |
Given under my hand and seal of office at Honolulu, this Eighteenth day of Decr 1848 [signed] J. [?] U. S. Consul |
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