(Source: MoSGA Journal, Fall 1987. Transcribed by Kathy Haggerty)

Passengers going to Missouri on board the “Meta”, arrived New York from Bremerhaven 8 Sept. 1857.  Copied from item 1082 on reel 178, National Archives microfilm series M237.
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Name                           Age     Sex      Occupation      From                Destination      List
Lohrmann, George      22        M         clerk                Bremerhaven   St. Louis            2
Phelzer, Jacob             21        M         Shoemaker      Baden              Missouri            5
Langehenning, Heinr. 43        M         farmer              Missouri          Missouri          13
     “     , Tibe               30        F                                       “                      “                 14
     “     , Dora              21        F                                       “                      “                 15
     “     , Sophie           19        F                                       “                      “                 16
Meine, Dorathea         48        F                                  Hanover               “                 17
Buchting, Theodor      20        M         farmer                   “                      “                 18
Blauke, Wilhelm         26        M         shoemaker       Braunschwig   St. Louis          47
Duffner, Saffer           34        M         farmer              Baden                   “                 53
Langer, Christian        17        M         baker               Hessen                  “                 60
Dillinger, Johann         44        M         weaver             Baden                   “                 117
Knigge, Heinrich         40        M         farmer              Hannover             “                 134
     “     , Dorothea       39        F                                       “                      “                 135
     “     , Marie             17        F                                       “                      “                 136
     “     , Heinrich        15        M                                     “                      “                 137
     “     , Christine        13        F                                       “                      “                 138
     “     , Friedrich          7/6     M                                      “                      “                 139
     “     , Dorothea         6/9     F                                       “                      “                 140
     “     , Lina                 5        F                                       “                      “                 141
     “     , Louise             6mo   F                                       “                      “                 142
Leipper, Marie             37        F          seamstress       Prussia                  “                 143
     “     , Christine        17        F          servant             Hannover             “                 144
Gattermeyer, Conrad  22        M         shoemaker       Bayern                  “                 154
Kayser, Joseph            15        M         laborer             Wurtemberg         “                 168
Schellenberger,Casper24         M         tinworker         Sachsen                “                 195
Lobenstein, Wilh.        46        M         farmer              Hessen                  “                 197
Schott, Adam              18        M         sparmaker             “                 Missouri          198
Lobenstein, Johann     17        M         farmer                   “                 St. Louis          216
Sieling, Wilhelm          18        M         taylor                    “                      “                 222
Grabe, Karl                 23        M         locksmith(sic)       “                      “                 226