Formerly Brindleytown. Community leader for the Digby area was Thomas Peters, born in Africa, enslaved in North Carolina, escaped to Nova Scotia. Peters was instrumental in making the Sierra Leone experience a realityHe had previously petitioned the government to stand by their promise to allot appropriately sized land lots to Black Loyalists and former Black Soldiers. Having witnessed no change in government allotment procedures for the better, when the Sierra Leone Company offer came through, Peters campaigned on their behalf. He travel throughout the region to Brindley Town, Annapolis Royal and Saint John, New Brunswick promoting the relocation offer. In January 1792, Peters, along with about 1200 other African Nova Scotian would go to Sierra Leone.