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One of the twenty-nine · Woodbridge

Cornelius Moss

Age
30, as the clerk estimated
From
Woodbridge
Status in the register
Formerly enslaved; the register names his enslaver.
Left for the British
About 1776, “7 yrs ago”
Certificate
a certificate of freedom from General Samuel Birch, the British commandant at New York
Ship
Sovereign
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.