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One of the twenty-nine · New Brunswick

Phillis Sparrow

Age
28, as the clerk estimated
From
New Brunswick
The clerk wrote
“stout, sizable wench, mulatto”
Status in the register
Formerly enslaved; the register names her enslaver.
Left for the British
1776, “7 yrs past, by proclamation”
Ship
London (frigate)
Bound for
Port Roseway (now Shelburne) and Birchtown, Nova Scotia
Register
“Book of Negroes,” 1783, Book One, part 1
Later
Not found in the Birchtown or Annapolis musters of 1784.

Sailed with

See the voyage on the map

Phil. Sparrow, 28, sizable Molatto; Nannis Sparrow, 11; Sukey, 9; John, 3, children
The Sparrow entry, frigate London, 1783.The National Archives (UK), PRO 30/55/100; image courtesy Nova Scotia Archives.See the whole document, every page →

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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.