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Detachment Property: Isaac Jon and Thomas Prichard

detachment property: It is a record of the 3,000 black refugees all of whom sided with the British during the war who were loaded on ships bound for Nova Scotia, then a British colony, according to National Observer. In column after column, the list of human souls reads like a commercial inventory Aaron Jon, 42, stout fellow. The book was compiled in New York between April and November of 1783 at the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War. Isaac Jon, 10, fine boy. And with each black loyalist's name, their status as a current or former slave is also cited with cold detachment Property of Thomas Prichard, and a refugee from Philadelphia. Sarah Gordon, 28, tall, limber wench. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.