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One of the twenty-nine · Piscataway

Eleanor Field

Age
27, as the clerk estimated
From
Piscataway
Status in the register
Formerly enslaved; the register names her enslaver.
Left for the British
1776
Certificate
a certificate of freedom from General Thomas Musgrave
Service
Listed with the Wagon Master General’s Department, the British army’s transport service
Ship
Nisbet
Bound for
Port Mouton (“Port Mattoon”), Nova Scotia
Register
“Book of Negroes,” 1783, Book Two

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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.