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One of the twenty-nine · New Brunswick

Abigail

Age
35, as the clerk estimated
From
New Brunswick
The clerk wrote
“stout”
Status in the register
Formerly enslaved; the register names her enslaver. Sailed with her child, four months old, whose name the register does not give.
Left for the British
About 1778, “5 yrs ago”
Ship
Ann
Bound for
Port Roseway (now Shelburne) and Birchtown, Nova Scotia
Register
“Book of Negroes,” 1783, Book One, part 1

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From the British register of 1783, compiled for this project from the transcription at blackloyalist.com and the Nova Scotia Archives database. Ages and descriptions are the clerks’ words. Later traces are name matches, not proven identities. How we write about people.