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One of the twenty-nine · Rocky Hill

Richard Sloane

Age
40, as the clerk estimated
From
Rocky Hill
The clerk wrote
“stout fellow”
Status in the register
Born free at Rocky Hill.
Left for the British
About 1780, “3 yrs ago”
Ship
Grand Dutchess of Russia
Bound for
Port Roseway (now Shelburne) and Birchtown, Nova Scotia
Register
“Book of Negroes,” 1783, Book Two, September 22, 1783
Later
In the Birchtown muster of 1784, as “Sloan, Richard” (a name match).

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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.