Thomas Peters (revolutionary)
(1738-1792)
Black Loyalist founding father of Sierra Leone
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Thomas Peters, born Thomas Potters (1738 – 25 June 1792), was a veteran of the Black Pioneers, fighting for the British in the American Revolutionary War. A Black Loyalist, he was resettled in Nova Scotia, where he became a politician and one of the "Founding Fathers" of the nation of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Peters was among a group of influential Black Canadians who pressed the Crown to fulfill its commitment for land grants in Nova Scotia. Later they recruited African-American settlers in Nova Scotia for the colonisation of Sierra Leone in the late eighteenth century.
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25 June 1738 Nigeria
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1792 (aged 53) Freetown, Sierra Leone
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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