Black Settlement Community for Blacks who Supported the Crown during the Revolution

• In which:

1. an attempt is made to match transport lists in the Book of Negroes to the founders of the Settlement
2. former slaveholders are matched with these Blacks

Blacks freed by the terms of Peace

~• identified matches

1. Silas, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania ; Schooner Sally bound for Port Roseway John Prim; Silas, 31, stout B fellow, (John Kerniche). Formerly slave to William Pettit, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; left him about 6 years ago.
2. Joseph Collins, 30, stout fellow. Dr. Van Buren of Hackensack, New Jersey, claimant, (John Buskirk). Formerly slave to John Kipp, New York Island, sold by Kipp to Dr. VanBuren, Hackensack, New Jersey, whom he left four years past.
3. Thomas Terhune Ship Ann bound for Port Roseway Joseph Clark, Master 1783: Thomas Terhune, 19, fine boy M, (Paul Speed). Formerly slave to Samuel Terhune, Hackensack; left him 2 ½ years past.
4. Samuel DeGraw, 24, stout fellow, (Wagon Master General Department). Formerly slave to Land DeGraw of Tapan, New Jersey; left him 5 years ago. GMC.
5. Stephen Vanboran {? Van Buren), 20, stout fellow, (Wagon Master General Department). Formerly slave to Albert Akerman, Parramus, New Jersey; left him in 1779. GMC. Albert Ackerman? BIRCHTOWN: VANBORAN, STEPHEN ~• van B(e)urens and Ackermans relate by marriage in that part of NJ; SHIP: Ship Nisbett, bound for Port Matton, Wilson, Master
6. John Townsend, 21, stout fellow. Late the property of Daniel Sturgis of Pennsylvania County; left him 2 years ago. (L'Abondance bound for Port Roseway Lt. Phillips, Commander (1783)); ended up at age 30 in Sierra Leone with mother and 2 girls, a carpenter;
7. Violet Snowball, 34, stout wench. Formerly the property of Richard Murray of Princess Ann County, Virginia; left him 7 years ago. GBC.
8. Nathaniel Snowball, 12, fine boy. Formerly the property of Richard Murray of Princess Ann County, Virginia; left him 7 years ago. GBC.
9. Mary Snowball, 3 months, healthy child. Property of Violet Snowball and born within the British lines. (these last three all on L'Abondance) Mary is not listed in Sierra Leone.
10. Nathaniel Snowball, 39, stout fellow. Formerly the property of Mrs. Shrewstine, Norfolk, Virginia; left her 7 years ago. (L'Abondance, listed separately; The Snowball family including a 12 year old China Snowball went to Sierra Leone (4) total

Notable individuals

1. Thomas Peters

Resources

1. Founding members of Birchtown
2. Book of Negroes transport list
3. Port Roseway Associates 1782-1807
4. Birchtown History
5. wikipedia file on Birchtown
6. Original List of those wanting to go to Sierra Leone
7. Those who received land in Sierra Leone1784 Muster Book, Nov.1791