The Davis family was one of the last of the Nova Scotian settler families and though the family has descendants in the United States and Europe. The Davis family was one of the original African American families of Sierra Leone, thus part of the Sierra-Leone Krio population; and they are mentioned in the Book of Negroes and also in the Muster list of Birchtown blacks. The family patriarch was Anthony Davis a 29 year old slave from Delaware. George Davis was a successful trader in Nigeria and he inherited property in Settler Town, Sierra Leone.
Descendants of this family migrated to other parts of Africa like Fernando Po, where they became a prominent family among the Fernandino community of creole people; and Nigeria, becoming part of the Saro community of Krio people.
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