Location: South Jersey

Lieutenant David Mulford

1748-1777 I volunteered to fight, and my life was cut short. I was born in 1749, on my parent’s farm in Cumberland County. I was a carpenter and built houses

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Thomas Redman

1742-1823 During the American Revolution, life could be hard for Quakers like me. I was born in 1742 into a pious Quaker family in Haddonfield, New Jersey, in what was

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Mary Creighton Stratton

1762 – 1847 I was a witness to the horrors of war right in my own hometown. I was born in Haddonfield, New Jersey, which is just across the Delaware

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Ann Cooper Whitall

1716 – 1797 I nursed soldiers who were injured at a fort built on my family’s land. I was born in the Cooper family in Woodbury, New Jersey, and married

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Patience Lovell Wright

1725 – 1786 I was an artist with many social connections, and – don’t tell! – I may have been a spy. I was born on Long Island, New York

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Margaret Morris

1737 – 1816 I was a Quaker widow who cared for everybody during the Revolution. In my early life I lived in a Quaker community in Philadelphia. I married William

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Francis Hopkinson

1737 – 1791 I was a small man who went on to do a great thing: sign the Declaration of Independence. I was born in Philadelphia in 1737 and all

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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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Andrew Hunter

1752-1823 I was a chaplain supporting the troops, and a diarist who recorded many stories from the Revolution. When I was born in Greenwich in Cumberland County in 1752, my

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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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Sarah Hancock Sinnickson

1748 – ???? I was from a Patriot family, whose father died in a British massacre. I was born in 1748 into an influential family in Salem County. Our house

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John Bacon

???? – 1783 I was a Loyalist raider who attained a terrible distinction. My origins are a mystery. The first anyone knows anything about me is in 1775, when I

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