Revolutionary Litchfield Co, CT?

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Surname AFRICA, colonial / Revolutionary Litchfield Co, CT?

Later on census I find some MD, PA, VA. There are no surname message boards. It's possible moved to Philadelphia during Revolution. Name, alias, was?? Got clues?

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4 weeks ago
Yes the stuff at familysearch.org is useless given the timeframe & geography, as are trees at ancestry.com. The following historical tidbit may have more value, naming the ship AFRICA which may turn out to be the source of someone taking on an alias: http://www.cslib.org/slaverlog.htm...
Log Book of Slave Traders between New London and Africa, 1757-8

[excerpted] "The following nine pages come from the manuscript logbook of one man, Samuel Gould, a Connecticut native who was a first mate or supercargo aboard three slave ships in 1757-58. The first ship, the Africa, sailed from New London to the current West African nation of Sierra Leone, up the Sierra Leone River and anchored at Bunce Island, owned by a British slave trading company. There slavers would purchase Africans kidnapped from the interior of Africa by blacks and would begin the trip west back to the Caribbean where slaves were in great demand for work on rice and sugar plantations. ... "

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 4 weeks ago
Yes the stuff at familysearch.org is useless given the timeframe & geography, as are trees at ancestry.com. The following historical tidbit may have more value, naming the ship AFRICA which may turn out to be the source of someone taking on an alias: http://www.cslib.org/slaverlog.htm...
Log Book of Slave Traders between New London and Africa, 1757-8

[excerpted] "The following nine pages come from the manuscript logbook of one man, Samuel Gould, a Connecticut native who was a first mate or supercargo aboard three slave ships in 1757-58. The first ship, the Africa, sailed from New London to the current West African nation of Sierra Leone, up the Sierra Leone River and anchored at Bunce Island, owned by a British slave trading company. There slavers would purchase Africans kidnapped from the interior of Africa by blacks and would begin the trip west back to the Caribbean where slaves were in great demand for work on rice and sugar plantations. ... "