Thomas Peters (revolutionary)
Thomas Peters, born Thomas Potters (1738–25th June 1792), was a Black Pioneers warrior who fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War. He was a Black Loyalist who was resettled in Nova Scotia, where he became a politician and one of the "founding fathers" of the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Peters was one of a group of notable and influential black Canadians who lobbied the Crown to fulfil its commitment to land concessions in Nova Scotia. Later, in the late eighteenth century, they recruited African-American residents in Nova Scotia for the colonization of Sierra Leone.