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One of the twenty-nine · New Brunswick

Phillis Farmer

Age
30, as the clerk estimated
From
New Brunswick
Status in the register
Wife of Jupiter Farmer, of the Wagon Master General’s Department.
Ship
Diannah
Bound for
Port Mouton (“Port Mattoon”), Nova Scotia
Register
“Book of Negroes,” 1783, Nova Scotia Archives entry 2915, p. 87
Later
Heads a family in the Birchtown muster of 1784 (a name match). The family was indentured and stayed in Nova Scotia; they did not go to Sierra Leone in 1792.

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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.