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George Clarke Musgrave (1874 - 1932)
Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : Apr 6 2019, 21:21:48 UTC Musgrave* Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : Jan 13 2021, 21:58:44 UTC Schwartz
David (Kwabena) Copeland (deceased)
"Kwabena"
Kwabena is a West African name from Ghana that means born on a Tuesday. It is a tradition for Africans to be given a name according to the day that they were born on. Also the spelling is from the Asha...
Prince Whipple, Black Patriot of the American Revolution MP (c.1750 - 1796)
Note : At the time of Prince Whipple's birth, Ghana was known as the Gold Coast of Africa.=BiographyBorn in Anomabu (present-day Ghana, then known as the Gold Coast), Prince Whipple was enslaved and br...
Nanny of the Maroons (Jamaica) MP (c.1686 - 1733)
Queen Nanny or Grandy Nanny, Jamaican National Hero, was a well-known leader of the Jamaican Maroons in the eighteenth century. Historical documents refer to her as the "rebels (sic) old obeah woman," ...
Capt. Paul Cuffee MP (1759 - 1817)
"changed name in 1778 from Slocum to Cuffe"
Paul Cuffee (January 17, 1759 – September 9, 1817) was a Quaker businessman, Sea Captain, patriot, and abolitionist. He was of Aquinnah Wampanoag and African Ashanti descent and helped colonize Sierra ...