In a message dated 4/28/99 7:16:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > List of foreigners imported in the ship Elizabeth, Edward Lee, Master, from > Rotterdam. Qualified Aug. 27, 1733 > > my Simon LANDER (LINDER) Jr. at age 16 shows as the youngest person on the > list. I am led to believe there were other younger children in the family, > plus a wife/mother. I don't see any female names that jump out to me. Mike- yep--Simon, Sr., and Jr. are on that list. > > Would it be customary not to list women and children perhaps below the age > of 16 or so? It all depended on the ship captain--most did not list children under 16 or woman. The reason was that the purpose of the lists was to record those passengers who were required to take the oath of allegiance to the British Crown and the government of Pennsylvania--and those were the men 16 and over. For a more complete explanation please see the following page on our PADutch Website: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~padutch/faqs/ships.html Joan