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One of the twenty-nine · Millstone

Samuel Penilack

Age
25, as the clerk estimated
From
Millstone
The clerk wrote
“stout fellow”
Status in the register
Formerly enslaved; the register names his enslaver.
Left for the British
1776, “7 yrs ago”
Certificate
a certificate of freedom from General Samuel Birch, the British commandant at New York
Ship
Lord Townsend
Bound for
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
Register
“Book of Negroes,” 1783, Book Two, September 22, 1783
Later
Not in the 1784 Annapolis and Digby muster.

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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.