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The Birth of Richard Pierpoint
Riichman Pierpoint was born in 1744 in Bondu, senegambia in West Africa (a river-laced land of streaming marshes and grassy plains. -
Captured
The European slaves who, during the eighteenth century transported sixty percent of West Africans population across the Antlantic. Pierpoint was one of them. He was captured with his hand bound behind his back and roped by the neck (to other men, women and children). -
Freedom
Pierpoint turned up in Fort Niagara. By that time he had earned his freedom. By enlisting to fight the americans for king George, the same king whose charted slave company had bought, branded and sold him. I chose this image because it shows a man running away, just like Pierpoint was free. -
Leaving the army
A year after the war ended he left the army, a seasoned veteran of thirty-six, and disapeared from the pages of history again for 4 years. I chose this picture because it represents the situation of a man walking away. -
Being recognized
He was granted as a veteran a 200 acre present-day st. Catharines. Ontario. -
Owning a property
Lots 13 and 14, concesssion6, became his property. He later on sold them. Why? He sold the property because turning forest into farm was dangerous, painstaking and back-breaking work. -
Petitioning of John G. Simcoe
Pawpine (Richard Pierpoint) and a number of other free americans petitioned Governor John G. Simcoe. They were Veterans of the late war and others who were born free with a few who have come into Canada since the peace. -
No longer a Loyalist
The next governor peter Hunter, removed Pawpine's name from the list of United Empire Loyalist. Pawpine was no longer consider a loyaltist. -
Take over
Henry Clay told the American Congress in Febuary in 1810 that t"he Malitia of the Kentucky alone " could take Montreak and upper Canada both. -
The American Revolutionary War
Pawpine fought the Americans by waging a fierce nad cruel guerilla-style campaign from the Hudsons to the Kentucky rivers to interupt the supply routes to the Continental Army. -
War again?
The americans got mad at the british nad invaded Canada trying to grab more land. As if half a continent was not enough. Pierpoint decided to enlist in this.
