I may have found the day Pat Riley/Reilly set foot on United States soil!

Below is a copy of a page from the manifest of the ship, Neptune which arrived in the Port of New York on May 28, 1862. You can see that the first column on the left has number 4, listed as Pat Reilly and number 5 is listed as Rose Kiernan.

This document is from the National Archives and Record Administration.

This is a pleasant find, but it has raised a question or two. When the page came up on the screen it was different from all of the other index pages on the microfiche roll. It was the very last page on the roll. Its physical makeup, font and layout was not at all similar to the other twenty some pages which makes me a bit nervous.