The Davis family was one of the last of the Nova Scotian settler

Black Nova Scotians

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 families and though the family has descendants in the United States

United States

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 and Europe

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. The Davis family was one of the original African American

African American

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 families of Sierra Leone, thus part of the Sierra-Leone Krio

Sierra Leone Creole people

The Sierra Leone Creoles, or Krios, are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone, descendants of West Indian slaves from the Caribbean, primarily from Jamaica; freed African American slaves from the Thirteen Colonies resettled from Nova Scotia; and Liberated Africans from various parts of Africa...

 population; and they are mentioned in the Book of Negroes

Book of Negroes

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 and also in the Muster list of Birchtown blacks. The family patriarch was Anthony Davis a 29 year old slave from Delaware

Delaware

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. George Davis was a successful trader in Nigeria

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 and he inherited property in Settler Town, Sierra Leone

Settler Town, Sierra Leone

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.

Descendants of this family migrated to other parts of Africa like Fernando Po

Bioko

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, where they became a prominent family among the Fernandino community of creole people; and Nigeria, becoming part of the Saro

Saros (Nigeria)

Saros or Creoles in Nigeria during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century were freed slaves who migrated to Nigeria in the beginning of the 1830s. They were known locally as Saros or Amaros: migrants from Brazil and Cuba. Saros and Amaros also settled in other West African countries...

 community of Krio people.

Sources

• http://www.blackloyalist.com/canadiandigitalcollection/documents/official/muster_book_free_blacks.htm
• http://www.blackloyalist.com/canadiandigitalcollection/documents/official/black_loyalist_directory.htm