Story: Road to Monmouth

William Stives

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

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Jack Cudjo Banquante

c1723-1823 My story involves slavery, warfare, freedom and prosperity. I was born around the year 1723 in Africa, in what is now known as Ghana. I was enslaved, survived the

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Benjamin Van Cleave

1773 – 1821 As a child, I witnessed the Battle of Monmouth. I was born in 1773 so I was only five years old when the Battle of Monmouth took

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Charles Lee

1732 – 1782 I was a Patriot General who started my career with promise but ended it in shame. I was born into a British military family, so it seemed

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John Hart

c1713 – 1779 I was a signer of the Declaration of Independence before the war came through my farm. I was baptized in Hopewell New Jersey in 1713, and in

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Joshua Jack Huddy

1735-1782 I was a zealous Patriot militiaman who sparked a famous diplomatic bonfire. I was born into a Quaker family in Salem County on November 8, 1735. We Quakers were

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William Maxwell

1733 – 1796 I led a new kind of military force that fought in many battles throughout the Revolution. I was born to Scotch-Irish parents in Northern Ireland in 1733,

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Oliver Cromwell

c1752 – 1853 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

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Philemon Dickinson

1739 – 1809 I was a leader of the Militia, and a representative in the Legislature. I was born in Delaware in 1739 on my father’s plantation. I graduated from

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Israel Carle

1757 – 1822 I was a dedicated cavalry officer in the militia. When the fighting at Lexington and Concord occurred, I was just 18 years old. Two months later, in

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Thomas Brown

1760 – ???? During the Revolution I fought in ships along the New Jersey Coast. I was born in 1760 and was living in Forked River – now part of

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