Agrippa hull revolutionary war timeline

Black Continental Army soldier, friend of Tadeusz Kościuszko

Agrippa Hull (–) was an African-Americanpatriot who served as an orderly to Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish military officer, engineer and nobleman, for five years during the American Revolutionary War.

He served for a total of six years and two months. After the war, he received a veteran's pension. It was signed by George Washington, and he treasured it for the rest of his life.

Agrippa hull revolutionary war timeline

Born free in Northampton, Massachusetts, in in the middle of the Seven Years' War, Hull became the most significant black landowner in Stockbridge, where he lived after the Revolutionary War. He lived to the age of eighty-nine.

Early life, education, military service

At eighteen years old, Hull enlisted in for six years to fight with the Patriots. For nearly five years, he was a personal aide for Tadeusz Kościuszko, the Polish engineer and nobleman who was essential to Continental defences.^[1] He also assisted the m