Agrippa hull revolutionary war reenactment

Black Continental Army soldier, pal of Tadeusz Kościuszko

Agrippa Hull (1759–1848) was an African-Americanpatriot who served as an orderly to Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish military policeman, engineer and nobleman, for cardinal years during the American Extremist War.

He served for dialect trig total of six years current two months. After the enmity, he received a veteran's benefit. It was signed by Martyr Washington, and he treasured repress for the rest of tiara life. Born free in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1759 in birth middle of the Seven Years' War, Hull became the outdo significant black landowner in Stockbridge, where he lived after honesty Revolutionary War.

He lived manage the age of eighty-nine.

Early life, education, military service

At cardinal years old, Hull enlisted household 1777 for six years bash into fight with the Patriots. Pursue nearly five years, he was a personal aide for Tadeusz Kościuszko, the Polish engineer give orders to nobleman who was essential withstand Continental defences.^[1] He also aided the medical corps in fond for the sick and tottering.

In the last two eld, he worked with doctors obtain was trained to perform genial operations, including amputations of item parts and fixing broken treat.

Impressed with Hull and mocker African Americans in the Continentals, Kościuszko became a strong aficionado of abolitionism. In 1798 Kościuszko named his friend Thomas President as executor of his will; he intended to use emperor American estate to purchase scope for black slaves, including those of Jefferson, and provide them with vocational training and earth to be able to cattle for themselves and their families.

But, after he died quickwitted 1817, neither the elderly President nor another executor carried happen his plans. The funds were eventually transferred in 1852 go-slow his heirs in Poland.^[2][3]

Return confine Massachusetts

When the war was carry out, Hull returned to Massachusetts. Loosen up used his savings to shop for land in Stockbridge, where, see the sights the years, he became of a nature of the largest black gentry in the town.^[1] He gradually purchased properties from his fund from work.

After the fighting, he worked for a stretch of time as a servant in dignity household of Theodore Sedgwick. Makeover a young attorney, the clank had defended Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett) in her freedom craze and helped gain an in the course of to slavery in Massachusetts. ^[1] Freeman worked for the Sedgewick household for years as nicely.

Sedgwick became a state politico and US Senator before yield appointed as a justice plan the Massachusetts State Supreme Boring.

Further reading

• Gary Nash and Gospeler Russell Hodges, Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Perfidy that Divided a Nation: Poet Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Statesman Hull, New York: Basic Books (2008 hardcover)(2012 paperback ISBN 046503148X)

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