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History says the settlement was established by emancipated slaves somewhere around 1807/8. By 1849 it exported pineapples and citrus fruit.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Craton |first1=Michael |last2=Saunders |first2=Gail |title=A History of the Bahamian People: From the Ending of Slavery to the Twenty-First Century |date=2000 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-2284-1 |page=146 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UIbRHcz2ZysC&pg=PA146 |language=en}}</ref> [[Louis Diston Powles]] visited Eleuthera, and in his book ''The Land of the Pearl'' (1888) referred to the Bluff settlement and its black residents, most notably John Neely, the tacitly accepted leader of the settlement.
At the National Archives in Nassau, Bahamas, there exists a will from one Christopher Neely, a white slaveholder (a British loyalist originally from South Carolina in the colonies). In his 1807 will he makes specific references to his slaves on Abaco and New Providence Islands. In this will he states that it is his desire that his 24 slaves on [[Abaco Island]] be freed upon his death, which came within several months of his will. Possibly this settlement was established by these freed slaves from Abaco Island.
The third settlement is on Cat Island.▼
The (Eleuthera) Bluff settlement sponsors an annual homecoming event the second weekend of July which generally coincides with the Independence Day celebrations taking place throughout the entire Bahamas.
▲At the National Archives in Nassau, Bahamas, there exists a will from one Christopher Neely, a white slaveholder (a British loyalist originally from South Carolina in the colonies). In his 1807 will he makes specific references to his slaves on Abaco and New Providence Islands. In this will he states that it is his desire that his 24 slaves on [[Abaco Island]] be freed upon his death, which came within several months of his will. Possibly this settlement was established by these freed slaves from Abaco Island. The (Eleuthera) Bluff settlement sponsors an annual homecoming event the second weekend of July which generally coincides with the Independence Day celebrations taking place throughout the entire Bahamas.
▲The third settlement called Bluff is on [[Cat Island]].
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