I was born in 1723 at Yester, Scotland, not far from Edinburgh, and was educated at Haddington, where my father was minister. After studies at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Edinburgh I served as Presbyterian minister at Beith, where I married Elizabeth Montgomery, and then at Paisley. I became deeply involved…

I was born in New Jersey sometime before the Revolution and lived near what is now Hamilton Square. When war came to our land, I did not carry a musket or march with the army, but I served in a different way. I opened my home to prisoners of war—men who had been captured in…

We were Quaker women living in what is now Mercer County, New Jersey, during the time of the American Revolution. Bound by our faith, we refused to take up arms or swear loyalty to either side, but that did not mean we stood idle. While battles broke out around us—from Trenton to Princeton—we stayed committed…

I was the Clarke Family Slave and witnessed the Battle of Princeton. The battle that took place on the farms of my owners was something that we did not at all expect. My seven owners were all related and were Quakers; people who were pacifists and did not want to be involved in the war…

We were the women of Trenton, born into a time of unrest and revolution. While the men marched to war, we stayed behind to hold the town together. We cooked, we nursed the wounded, and we kept our families safe as battles raged just beyond our doors. Some of us passed messages in secret, carrying…

I was born in 1733 and lived in Elizabeth, New Jersey, during the most uncertain days of the American Revolution. I was a Quaker woman, raised with quiet strength and firm convictions, and I never imagined the fate of my town would rest on my voice. But in December of 1776, as British forces swept…

I was born near Annapolis, Maryland in 1737, the tenth child in the socially prominent and well-to-do Richard and Deborah Hill family. Financial difficulties forced my family to move to the Azores. I was then sent to live with my recently married sister in Philadelphia, who raised me to adulthood. I received a good education…

I was born into the Clarke family of Princeton, New Jersey, Quaker settlers whose roots in the area stretched back three generations. Our family farm sat along the edge of the Stony Brook, quiet and unassuming, until the morning of January 3, 1777, when the war for independence came crashing through our fields. That day,…

I was born around 1754, the daughter of a dairy farmer in New Jersey. When I was thirteen, I left home to work as a servant, and not long after, I married William Hays, a barber from Pennsylvania. When the Revolution began, William joined the Pennsylvania Artillery, and I followed him into camp as part…

I was born in 1745 at Spring Grove Farm in Maidenhead (today’s Lawrence Township) into a family that migrated to New Jersey about 1680 and was originally from Yorkshire, England. I chose to pursue law as my career and, after reading law with a lawyer in Princeton, I set up my practice at Allentown, New…