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Richard Pierpoint: Slave, Soldier, Settler

Date: November 27, 2012
Time: 9:30 AM
Event Location : Wellington County Museum & Archives
Address : 0536 Wellington Rd. 18
Fergus N1M 2W3
Phone : 519-846-0916
Web : http://www.wcm.on.ca
Admission : Voluntary donation
This exhibit examines the life of a man whose fascinating odyssey began about 1760 in West Africa and became an early settler near Fergus, Upper Canada.In 1760, a 16 year old boy began a journey that took him from West Africa to the colonies of America. He endured twenty years of slavery, the dangerous life of a British soldier through two epic wars and, as a very old man, the hardships of settlement in the wild lands of Garafraxa .....MORE DETAILS ON WEBSITE

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