Passenger Lists: San Francisco 1800s


 

SS John L. Stephens

Arrive San Francisco

May 18, 1854
Captain R. H. Pearson
From Panama

Passage

May 19, 1854, Daily Alta California, San Francisco

ARRIVAL OF THE J. L. STEPHENS

Important from Europe.
DECLARATION OF WAR.
England and Russia in the Fields.
Admiral Napier's Address to His Fleet.
THE ALLIED FLEET IN THE BLACK SEA.
The Revolution in Spain.
New Treaties between England and
The United States.
Terrible Shipwrecks and Loss of Life.
Gadsden Treaty Rejected by the Senate.
Congressional Matters, c&c.

The P. M. steamer John L. Stephens, R. L. Pearson, Commander, arrived at an early hour yesterday morning from Panama, bringing a large number of passengers, and the Atlantic mails to the 20th of April.

The Stephens made an unusually long passage, owing to the bad quality of coal in use.

The latest advices from New York are to the 20th, and New Orleans 22d of April, and from Liverpool to the 8th of April.

We are indebted to the politeness of Capt. Pearson for stopping his ship for our reporter, and to Mr. Goddard, Purser, for his attentions, and for the following memoranda and list of passengers:

Memoranda.

The Pacific Mail steamship John L. Stephens, R. H. Pearson, Esq., Commander, left Panama, with the United States mails of April 20th and 22d, and 701 passengers,

Slavery, Scandal, and Steel Rails The Gadsden Purchase.
David Devine
The 1854 Gadsden purchase and the building of the Second Transcontinental Railroad across Arizona and New Mexico 25 years later.
of whom 119 were women and 72 children, on Wednesday, May 3d, at 9 P. M., having been detained until that time in consequence of the non-arrival at Aspinwall of the steamship Falcon. With U. S. Troops from New York, April 18th.

The work upon the railroad is progressing rapidly, and its early completion through to Panama is confidently anticipated. May 9th, 11 A. M., arrived at Acapulco. Found in port steamship Panama, Capt. McLane, hence for Panama. May 1st - all well on board. She left Acapulco at 2 P. M., for Panama. Steamship Columbus, from San Francisco for Panama, left Acapulco on the 6th inst.

On the 29th April Santa Ana raised the blockade and retreated with his forces to the interior, his vessels sailing to the northward. Everything appeared to be perfectly quiet at Acapulco, though serious apprehensions were entertained that he would return with an increased force to take the place. At 5 P. M. left Acapulco; at 9 P. M. saw the lights of a steamer bound down, supposed to be the Cortes, for San Juan. 11th, 3 P. M., passed a propeller, under sail, showing Hamburg colors, apparently an iron vessel, and a fine looking craft. 18th, at 7 A. M., arrived at San Francisco. The J. L. Stephens made an unusually long passage, owing to the very inferior quality of her coal.

Terrible Shipwreck and Loss of Life

A terrible shipwreck occurred on the 15th of April, at Long Beach, nine miles below Barnegat inlet. It was at first supposed that it was the Hamburg ship Humboldt, but this was a mistake, as theHumboldt arrived safely at quarantine on the 20th. The wreck was that of the Powhattan of Baltimore, from Havre, with emigrant passengers. The following telegraphic dispatches from Philadelphia tell the terrible story. It seems by the dispatches that other vessels besides thePowhattan were wrecked:

Philadelphia, April 19th, 1854. - A dispatch received from Capsecum says that up to last night about forty dead bodies - men, women and children - had been washed ashore on the beach about a quarter mile across the channel. Those seen by our informant appear to be Germans. They are all much disfigured however.

Bodies were washed ashore all the time on the Absecon coast.

April 19th, 1854. - A letter received at the Ledger office from Long Beach, dated Monday, states that the ship Powhattan of Baltimore left Havre with emigrants about the 1st of March - she was an old vessel, of about six hundred tons.

Passengers

J. F. Haughton adn lady, Mrs. Slade family and servant, A. J. bel, lady and three children and two servants, Mrs. Clark (or Glark), Geo. Abernethy, P R Berrien. J R Cooper, Capt Waterman, lady and servant, Miss Wheaton, Mrs Ritchie and 2 daughters, Miss E Ritchie and servant, W. Ritchie, H Ritchie, A Ritchie, D. Hanover, H. E. Griffin, R. H. Gibbets, Miss A. M. Miller, Mrs. Lyndall, J. Wilson, Miss Ryan, J. C. Vandervoort, Dr. J. D. Webster and lady, Rev E. L. Lacey, G. C. Gardner, Henry McLean, G. Kelley, J. Johnson, Mrs. Coddington, child and servant, Mrs. Ingoldsby, C. L. Ingoldsby, Mrs. Creigh, Wm. Creigh, H. H. Hull, R. Sibley, J. Sherrin, Mrs. Flannery and son, Mrs. D. R. Jones and infant, Mrs. J. R. Lockwood, Mrs. J. F. Reeves and 2 children, Mrs. J. N. Olney, J. N. Olney, Jr., Mrs. Spang and 3 children, W. Platt, J. H. White, Mrs. Story, child and servant, Mrs.Timmerman and two children, Miss Wilkinson, Mrs. Butler and son, Mr. Elsiminger and infant, Mrs. Duncan and wife (cq), Paine, Cohen, S. P. Russ, R. C. Montgomery, J. W. Creigh, T. A. Gibbs, C. F. Hosmer and wife, Mrs. Morrey and 3 children, Mrs. Harris, T. J. Lamb, H. Adams, Misses Simdson, Garson, Gulger, Mrs. Timmerman adn 2 children, and C. N. Hall, Mrs. Montgomery and child, Hammond and three sisters, Mrs. Gwin, three daughaters and three servants, Adams & Cos messengers, F. A. Ketchum and lady, F. Ashworth, wife and chidl, Misses Nichols, C. Goodwin, Lathrop, Fitzpartrick, B. Fitzpatrick, F. Kennedry, O. G. Evans, Knockenberger, Tachery, Mr. Morrell, Shaw, eymouth, G. Morgan, J. Hoag, J. B. Waters, W. McLauchlin wife and three children, Mrs. Shepard ch, child and two servants, M. Hughes, Mr. Wood; A. J. Hyland, F. A. Dean, C. Gossmer, J. P. Clark, J. Ladrin, Henry Norton, E. C. Crosby, E. Wood, C. H. Brobk; W. I. Wheeler, Mrs. Colburn and children, J. G. Euratiss, Mrs. C. C. McDaniels, servant and two children, Mr. McDaniel and servant, Mrs. J. G. Ross, Miss A. Ravely, Mrs. E. Evans and servant, H. Strong, Mrs. Strong, Mrs. Tierre, Mrs Stephens and child, J. R. Ross, A. J. Vaughan, John Mudgett, C. C. Whithern, H. Measure, Jas Stevens, T. F. Fisher, L. W. Kumsley, C. B. Higgin,J. H. Strobridge, N. Holmes, C. L. Rollins, A. S. Pray, H. Wentworth, S. P. Hassey, J. H. Tachney, J. Brobit, J. Saullemayer, wife and child, G. Brummer and child, Mrs. Riley and 4 children, Mrs. Arnold and child, J. Dougherty and child, Fitzpatrick, E. White, W. Young and wife, J. Bias, Mrs. Somnerville, W. P. Fuller, J. W. Fuller, P. Fuller, H. Rivett and child, O. M. Sherwin and wife, A. W. Stowe and lady, Mrs. Southworth and daughter, J. H. Stone, J. M. Minrigg, E. W. Norris, J. Hillyer, A. Wiser, J. Pardee, J. Ream, J. Dashed, G. G. Davis, W. Rice, C. Forman, J. J. Arrington, Mrs. Hastings and son, C. Thompson, J. Farnesworth, P. H. Pray, A. Cornwell, A. R. Hansheit, L. E. Grove, J. Parsons, A. H. Countess, R. A. Santon. J. Brigham, R. A. Wilkins, C. A. Gilchrist, A. J. Larkin, M. L. Washburn, J. Bulwer, A. Vamoil, Mrs. J. Broderick, Mr. Broderick. L. W. Hargan, Silas P. Wilson, G. H. Peterson, A. Mussey, J. Ward, Mrs. J. Morton, H. C. Murray, J. Shelley, J. Lightwood and lady, A. E. Hardee, J. Reed, J. A. Williams, J. H. Gallaway, P. R. Piersons, G. Frederick, J. R. Bittnall, and 449 others -- 119 women and 72 children.


The Mammoth Book of Life Before the Mast:
Sailors' Eyewitness Stories from the Age of Fighting Ships
 
Jon E. Lewis, Editor
Firsthand accounts of the real-life naval adventures behind the popular historical sagas of Patrick O'Brian and C. F. Forester. Twenty true-life adventures capture the glory and gore of the great age of naval warfare from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century -- the age of the French Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812 -- when combat at sea was won by sheer human wit, courage, and endurance. Culled from memoirs, diaries, and letters of celebrated officers as well as sailors, the collection includes accounts of such decisive naval engagements as Admiral Horatio Nelson's on the Battle of the Nile in 1798 or Midshipman Roberts' on the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and also offers glimpses into daily hardships aboard a man-of-war: scurvy, whippings, storms, piracy, press gangs, drudgery, boredom, and cannibalism.

Life of a Sailor (Seafarers' Voices) Ships, Shipping, Migration, World Seaports.Life At Sea.Ships, Shipping, Migration, World Seaports.
Frederick Chamier
Chamier went to sea in 1809 as an officer in the Royal Navy. Like his contemporary, Captain Frederick Marryat, he enjoyed a successful literary career and is remembered for his naval novels. This book, his first, is usually catalogued as fiction, although it is an exact account of his naval experiences, with every individual, ship, and event he described corroborated by his service records. Told with humor and insight, it is considered an authentic account of a young officer's service. From anti-slavery patrols off Africa to punitive raids on the American coast during the War of 1812, Chamier provides details of many lesser-known campaigns. His descriptions of British naval operations in America, which reflected his objection to bringing the war to the civilian population, were highly criticized by his seniors.

The Nagle Journal: A Diary of the Life of Jacob Nagle, Sailor, from the Year 1775 to 1841Stories of the Sea and Ships.
John C. Dann

Great Stories of the Sea & Ships Sea Stories and the history of America.
N. C. Wyeth
Life before the mast.High-seas adventures showcasing showcases the fiction of such classic writers as Daniel Defoe, Jules Verne, and Jack London, and also historic first-person narratives including Christopher Columbus’ own account of his voyage in 1492. Vivid tales of heroic naval battles and dangerous journeys of exploration to the stories of castaways and smugglers. The variety of works includes “The Raft of Odysseus,” by Homer; Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Mermaid”; “The Specksioneer,” by Elizabeth Gaskell; Washington Irving’s “The Phantom Island”; and “Rounding Cape Horn,” by Herman Melville. Eighteen black and white illustrations by Peter Hurd.

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