I was a free Black person who fought for everyone’s freedom in the Revolution. I enlisted for the duration of the war as a fifer in the 3rd New Jersey Regiment. I endured the terrible winter of ’77-’78 at the Valley Forge encampment. When summer came, we crossed the Delaware River and camped out in…

I was born in Africa and taken from my homeland as a child. I arrived in Princeton, New Jersey, enslaved and brought into the household of Dr. Absalom Bainbridge, a respected physician who would later declare loyalty to the British crown. I was known as Prime. I lived and labored in the Bainbridge House on…

I was a free black man who proudly served my new country. My origins are a little mysterious, I was born in the village of Black Horse in Burlington County, and some believe I was a mulatto – with white and black parents – while others think I may have been Indian. I was probably…