In helping others research, I found one who came to the US in the late
1860's and it gave the reason they were coming here. Also, I have court
documents of another case where they left Faial illegally (a ship from
Faial chased their ship and didn't catch them - probably paid off) and
entered the US illegally (under dark of night) with 41 passengers who were
sent ashore on smaller vessels and took carts, trains, etc. to their
destinations. There is no manifest of the passengers. So if your ancestor
was on this ship, there is no way you would ever find him/her listed on a
manifest. The only way they got caught in the US is one of the male
passengers went into a bar shortly after landing and bragged about it and
they charged the captain who ended up paying a $2000 fine.
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