The Davis family (variant forms: Davies, Davison, Davids) was one of the last of the Nova Scotian settler families and though the family has descendants in the

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and

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, the Davis family was one of the original

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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

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and ran away about 1780. He traveled to

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on the ship ''Mary'' and also in the Muster list of Birchtown blacks as a farmer.

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