Stephen Blucke (abt. 1752 - aft. 1796)

Born about 1752 in Barbados

Died after 1796 after about age 44 in United States of America

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Biography

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Stephen Blucke was a Black Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War, and one the commanding officers of the British Loyalist provincial unit, the Black Company of Pioneers.

Stephen Blucke was born in Barbados about 1752.

He was one of 3,000 people who left New York for Nova Scotia on British ships. He settled in a town designed for African-Americans, Birchtown, Nova Scotia. He was a leader in the town, called a magistrate and commissioned as lieutenant colonel of the Black Militia of the greater Shelburne district by Governor John Parr. He worked with a surveyor to identify the area that would become Birchtown and was involved in coordinating labour for roads and other public works. He passed away after 1796.

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• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7608730