Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Fortune — A Free Negro
This excerpt from the muster roll of discharged officers, disbanded soldiers and Loyalists taken in Annapolis County 18-24 June 1784 almost certainly refers to the family of Rose Fortune (ca 1774-1864).
The original muster roll is in the Ward Chipman papers at the Library and Archives Canada. (Nova Scotia Archives microfilm 10163, pages 28-53.)
Date: 30 July 1784
Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 376 pages 52-53
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