One of the twenty-nine · Piscataway

Sarah Field

Age: 2, as the clerk estimated
From: Piscataway
Status in the register: Child of Ben and Eleanor Field.
Ship: Nisbet
Bound for: Port Mouton (“Port Mattoon”), Nova Scotia
Register: “Book of Negroes,” 1783, Book Two

Sailed with

Ben Field, 38
Eleanor Field, 27
Ben Field (son), 4

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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.

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