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One of the twenty-nine · New Brunswick

Susanna Van Ryper

Age
24, as the clerk estimated
From
New Brunswick
Status in the register
Sailed with Henry, 34, Mary, 24, and a child of 1, perhaps her family.
Ship
Clinton
Bound for
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
Register
“Book of Negroes,” 1783, Nova Scotia Archives entry 1383, p. 52
Later
Not found in the musters.

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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.