The Davis family (variant forms: Davies, Davison, Davids) [1][2] was one of the last of the Nova Scotian settler families and though the family has descendants in the United States and Europe, the Davis family was one of the original African American families of Sierra Leone, thus part of the Sierra-Leone Creole population.

Anthony Davis, a 29-year-old, is mentioned in the Book of Negroes. He was a slave owned by Mark Davis on the Delaware River and ran away about 1780. He traveled to Nova Scotia on the ship Mary[3] and also in the Muster list of Birchtown blacks as a farmer.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ "Davis Surname Meaning and Distribution". Retrieved 23 January 2014
  2. ^ "Last name:Davies". SurnameDB. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Book of Negroes - Book One Part One". Black Loyalist, Canada's Digital Collection. November 17, 2007. Archived from the original on November 17, 2007. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  4. ^ "Birchtown Muster". Black Loyalist, Canada's Digital Collection. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  5. ^ Herrmann, Rachel B. (2019-11-15). No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution. Cornell University Press. p. 1797. ISBN 978-1-5017-1612-6.
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