Ship Passengers arriving in San Francisco: 1800s

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Queen of the East

Arrive San Francisco

September 9, 1852
Clipper Ship Queen of the East
Captain Bartlett
From New York, 92 passengers

Passage

Daily Alta California, September 9, 1852

Cargo

Importations: 11 bxs glass, 11 bales duck, 86 bx oysters, 3170 pcs yellos pitch board, 531 bars, 60 bdls iron, 108 bdls sheet iron, 200 pigs lead, zinc, 20 kegs horse shoes, 252 bxs tin plate, 16 pdls wire, 11 cedar posts, 20 bdls shoves, 60 bxs pepper sauce, 20 bxs sweet meats, 20 bxs bay rum, 40 bxs bitters, 50 bxs brandy cherries, 50 bxs cherry brandy, 50 bxs cordials, 12 bxs bitters, 2 cs yeast powder, 140 bales gunny bags, 3 cs piano forte, 678 bdls spruce lumber, 3232 pcs white pine, 1208 pcs plank, 2340 pieces clear lumber, 80 bbls beef, 30 bbs pork, 1 platform scale, 106 wheelbarrows, 29 tcs hams, 4400 pcs timber, 3 cs air chambers, 63 cs sheathing copper, 120 iron segments, 3 boxes trenails and pins, 45 bales felt, 6 coils rope,1 bdt thimbles, 2 hhds oil, 1 pitch pot, 24 bbls naval stoes, 18 wheels, 3 bxs sundries, 17 copper chambers, 12 bxs tin, 9 kegs nails, 40 kegs zinc paint, 12 hhds machinery, 28 iron bars and shafts, 12 iron cog wheels, 54 pump rods, 146 iron shafts, 1 bdl zinc, 134 bxs bolts, 1 hf bbl zinc nails, 8 bdls iron, 43 bbls nails and bolts, 12 iron pumps, 15 pcs pump iron, 113 bags trenails and pins, 24 bbls tar, for the government dry dock.

Consignees: Waterman, Jordan & Co., Carl & Co., Bibb & Co., Ogden & Haynes, Backus & Harrison, W. McNulty, Thos. Jones, T.H. Selby, A Edouard, Master and Order.

Passengers

South Street Seaport, c.1901

Dr. Sinclair and lady
Mrs. Ames and two children
Mrs. Housley and two children
Thos. Ellison
H. Haskell
C. W. Moore
W. Story
W. H. Ellison
J. E. Hoan
N. Van Wagner
M. P. Townsend
N. K. Lancaster
H. Dunbar
J.G. Sumner
T. Knowlton
J. E. Waters
J. S. Bryant
Capt. J. Hitchcock
W. Neal
A. Edwart*
N. P. Burgess
E. Freeman
D. G. Haynes
J. D. Freeman
A. H. Patterson
G. W. Marriane
H. Carlton
W. H. Chapman
G. F. Heal
A. A. Heal
P. Hall
J. C. Miller
J. W. Coombs
F. A. Herrick
C. Burt
B. J. York
S. W. Blancard
J. C. Story
W. S. Card
J. H. Emerson
W. K. Ryan
J. P. Poore
M. N. Hazelton
K. Patterson
O. Stevens
M. Knowlton
B. H. Rhodes
W. W. Taylor
B. G. Herrick
H. Pitcher
J. W. Holt
D. Vincent
R. Venice
A. Patterson
J. Stevenson
J. Hussey

New York Seaport, 1884 Reproductions are available by clicking on the image.

H. Woodcock
S. W. York
C. Johnson
C. Stevens and wife
M. Donnoody and wife *
W. Ryan
H. Ryan
D. B. Randall
J. W. Jeffres
D. Murray
A. Harris
A. E. Zinkham
G. Hoskins
D. B. Martin
Jno A. Sampson
J. P. Stetson
C. Patterson
W. R. Harlow
W. C. Barnes
G. F. Dunham
H. Morey
E. Hathaway
J. Edos
S. Shilingsbury
D. S. Drew
P. Finney
H. Wordsworth
Henry Allen
N. Churchill

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