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Survey of Birchtown
1783 		Survey of Birchtown
Certificate of Freedom
Certificate of Freedom
1783

Woodcutter
Black Loyalist Woodcutter
1788

Return to Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone
1792
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Mulberry
Plantation
1779 		Mulberry Plantation
 
The Book of Negroes

The Book of Negroes
1783
Brownspriggs Land Grant

Brownspriggs Land Grant
1787

Publication by Boston King
1798

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