I represent Phillis. I was a woman of color in British Pensacola. My daughter’s baptism is in the records of Rev. Nathaniel Cotton, where she was identified as Ann, “Daughter of a Negroe woman named Phillis” She was baptized January 14, 1770. Though the record was silent on my status, I was probably enslaved. There were on a few free people of color in the colony. (It is possible, however, that I am the Phyllis who was emancipated in 1767.)
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