Moses Wilkinson

[3] He gained freedom from slavery in Virginia during the American Revolutionary War and was a Wesleyan Methodist preacher in New York and Nova Scotia.

In 1791, he migrated to Sierra Leone, preaching alongside ministers Boston King and Henry Beverhout.

Wilkinson joined some 3,000 other Black Loyalists in on L'Abondance to Halifax in Nova Scotia;[6][9] he is listed with them in the Book of Negroes.

[1] The largest Black Loyalist settlement in Nova Scotia was established in Birchtown, but the refugees found the climate and conditions harsh, and the Crown was slow to grant them land.

[10] The officers of the Sierra Leone Company clashed with members of the independent-minded Christian denominations, and matters came to a head with a failed rebellion led by Methodists in 1800.

[6] His ministry inspired Gowan Pamphlet,[11] minister and freedman who founded the Black Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Virginia.