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People · The Twenty-Nine

One of the twenty-nine · Brunswick Landing

Cornelius McIntire

Age
28, as the clerk estimated
From
Brunswick Landing
The clerk wrote
“stout fellow, miller”
Status in the register
Free; he had served an indenture until 21.
Certificate
General Birch’s certificate, produced to the inspectors
Ship
The Brothers
Bound for
Saint John River, in what became New Brunswick
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.