Name/Title
Military discharge papers (facsimile) - Agrippa Hull, 1783Entry/Object ID
2024.047Scope and Content
Facsimile of Certificate of Discharge for Private Agrippa Hull, dated July 24, 1783. Signed by George Washington, 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 the Polish military engineer General Tadeusz Kosciuszko with whom he developed a lasting friendship. Hull served in several battles from Saratoga, NY to Eutaw Springs in South Carolina.
Certificates of discharge were submitted as part of an application for a military pension and usually remained part of the pension records. To find one outside of these records is unusual, and to find one for a free African American soldier is rarer still, since relatively few free African Americans served in the Continental Army.
Original document is in the collection, Acc # 2024.018Collection
Hull (Agrippa) Collection (1759-1848)Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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Discharge, MilitaryNomenclature Secondary Object Term
Record, MilitaryNomenclature Primary Object Term
Record, ExecutiveNomenclature Sub-Class
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