When a census was taken in 1843, Bassa Cove was home to 124 persons. Four worked in agriculture, six were artisans, five merchants, 23 semiskilled, and 14 unskilled. There was no professional or appointed office holder.
In 1843, 93 residents were members of two local churches. Forty-four were Baptists and 49 Methodists.
When Liberia declared its independence in 1847, the country contained 11 towns. Buchanan was one of them.
Footnote: U. S., Congress, Senate, U. S. Navy Department, tables showing the number of emigrants and recaptured Africans sent to the colony of Liberia by the government of the United States … together with a census of the colony and a report of its commerce, &c. September, 1843: Senate Document No. 150, 28th Cong., 2n sess., 1845.
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