Davis family (Sierra Leone)

The Davis family 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 ranaway about 1780. He traveled to Nova Scotia on the ship Mary[1] and also in the Muster list of Birchtown blacks as a farmer.[2][3] George Davis was a successful trader in Nigeria and Fernando Po and he inherited property in Settler Town, Sierra Leone.

Descendants of this family migrated to other parts of Africa like Fernando Po, where they became a prominent family among the Fernandino community of creole people; and Nigeria, becoming part of the Saro community of Creole people.

References
  1. "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.
  2. "Birchtown Muster". Black Loyalist, Canada's Digital Collection. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  3. 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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