Public Unveiling of Agrippa Hull’s Certificate of Discharge

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The Stockbridge Library Museum & Archives is pleased to announce the acquisition of the discharge certificate of Agrippa Hull. This document, dated July 24, 1783, is signed by George Washington as well as Joseph Trumbull and Lt. Jacob Town of the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment. Hull was a free African American soldier from Stockbridge, who served for six years in the Continental Army, two as orderly to General John Paterson of the Massachusetts Line, and the remainder of his service in the same capacity to General Tadeusz Kościuszko. Hull served in several battles from Saratoga, NY to Eutaw Springs in South …


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