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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
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
1737-1780, Presbyterian Minister’s Wife My story is a sad one, and it made me a symbol of the fight for freedom. I lived in Elizabethtown, after moving from Newark to