One of the twenty-nine · Bound Brook

John Dunn

Age: 45, as the clerk estimated
From: Bound Brook
Status in the register: Formerly enslaved; the register names his enslaver.
Left for the British: 1778
Ship: Montague
Bound for: Port Roseway (now Shelburne) and Birchtown, Nova Scotia
Register: “Book of Negroes,” 1783, Book One, part 1
Later: In the Birchtown muster of 1784, as “Dunn, John” (a name match).

The image of this register page is being added. Until then, search the register at Nova Scotia Archives.

Do you know more?

If you know more about John Dunn, or descend from someone who sailed in 1783, please get in touch.

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.

← Sally Lynch Jack Richards →