Agrippa Hull was a remarkable man. He was one of the most remarkable and unnoticed African Americans of the Revolutionary era. He served for six years and two months in George Washington's Continental Army, which earned him a badge of honor for this extended service. However, Hull's impact on shaping abolitionist thought of Tadeuz Kosciuszko, the polish military general for whom he served as an orderly for the last fifty months of the war, is the hidden importance of this young black patriot. Said to be the son of an African prince, Agrippa Hull was born free in Northampton, Massachusetts on March 7, 1759. Little is known of Hull's father, who died when Hull was an infant. His parents were members of the Congregational Church where Jonathon Edwards occupied the pulpit.
Following his eighteenth birthday, Hull enlisted in the Continental Army, where he was assigned as an orderly to General John Paterson of the Massachusetts line, at Paterson's side, Hull witnessed the surrender of British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga, endured the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge, and was part of the battle of Monmouth Courthouse, New Jersey in June 1778.
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