Abraham Hazeley

Nova Scotian Settler

Abraham Hazeley (1784–1847) was a Nova Scotian settler in Sierra Leone. He was the founder of what was to become one of the most prominent Creole families in the country.[1]: 309 

Abraham Hazeley Junior was born in Birchtown, Nova Scotia to Abraham Hazeley and Martha 'Patty' Hazeley. Abraham Hazeley Sr. (1754–1809) was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was one of the African Americans who settled in Nova Scotia in 1783.[2]

References

  1. ^ Walker, James (1992). The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone 1783-1870. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802074027.
  2. ^ Fyfe, Christopher (1962). A History of Sierra Leone. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


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