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   They disembarked in Port Roseway, a port that would be rechristened Shelburne, only to find themselves exiled again—this time to the rocky, forest-choked margins of that settlement, to a place soon called Birchtown. It was land granted, but only nominally: swamp at its rear, stones at its feet, and the cold Atlantic pressing in from the bay.
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   Image: Detailed inset map of Burch Town (Birchtown) & the black suburb of Shelburne, London 12 July 1798, Cartographer: Captain Holland, NS Archives.