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Note: "Report of Manifest of all Passengers taken on board the Ship Susquehanna whereof Albert Turley is Master, from Liverpool burthen 583 tons 64/95ths and owned by H [illegible] Cope & Co of Philada and bound to Philadelphia" Name / Age / Sex Elizabeth Tanner / 30 / female John / 10 / male Wm / 8/ male Mary Ann / 6/ female Nancy / 4/ female Infant / infant / - For all passengers it listed the occupation as "farmers, mechanics and laborers" For all passengers when asked "to what country belonging" it said Great Britain and Ireland And for all passengers when asked "Country to which it is their intention to become inhabitants" it listed United States of America There is more irrelevant text, but it ends with "sworn before me, this 30th day of July, 1846" The year is very difficult to read but that is my best guess and that date works with the ages of everyone per the census data. Elizabeth Tanner was received by Certificate into the First Presbyterian Church of Summit Hill and the Panther Valley in April 1847. On 29 July 1846 Thomas Cope of Philadelphia wrote in his journal, "This morning the Susquehanna from Liverpool is passing up in full view, deeply laden. When the Line was first established we had a +, strongly marked in black, painted on the foresail of each Ship. It was not, as has been supposed, to designate the Catholicism of the owner but a sign, easily seen at a distance, to denote the vessel distinctly from all others - few emblems in any shape displaying more visibly. The private signal at the head of the mainmast bears likewise a black cross on a red ground. These emblems are separate from the Holyhead signals which disclose each Ship of the Line apart from the rest of her consorts."
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