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One of the twenty-nine · Brunswick Landing

Lissey McIntire

Age
24, as the clerk estimated
From
Brunswick Landing
The clerk wrote
“stout wench”
Status in the register
Wife of Cornelius. Formerly enslaved; the register names her enslaver, who died in the spring of 1778.
Left for the British
1778
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.