Her name was recorded in a variety of different ways in the Register of Liberated Africans and other colonial documentation, and included Fuseng-be (the most frequently used version), Fee Seng Be, Fusengbe, and Fuseng-bé. The variations in spelling, use of a hyphen and an accent in different versions, suggest that those recording her name were unfamiliar with its African linguistic origins, and attempted to record it phonetically. After interviewing her through the use of an interpreter, John Donald McGregor reported that he believed she was 'of the Timmaney tribe'. This is consistent with the deposition of Warwick Francis, who reported that the trader Peters had brought 'a Timmaney girl named Fuseng be into this Colony'. As her father lived at 'Rolullom', it is likely that this was also Fuseng-be's place of birth. This settlement was located two days' travel from Rokon on the Rokel river, indicating that Fuseng-be  
was brought into Freetown from a distance of approximately 70 kilometres to the north-east. This is not dissimilar to the distance of approximately 100 kilometres over which Africans destined for export in the southern Sierra Leone trade were moved in the early nineteenth century.