Paul Long: Revolutionary War Veteran

Mini-Comics | NH’s Black Revolutionaries

Over 200 African American men of New Hampshire served in the Revolutionary War. Paul (a.k.a. Peter) Long was one of them:

Long’s Revolutionary “journey” begins here with an advertisement placed in the NH Gazette by Long’s enslaver; It seems Long has undertaken to secure his own liberty at the outset of the American Revolution!

Next we pick up Long’s trail through his enlistment records:

Drawn with:

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SELECTED SOURCES:

RUNAWAY notice / The New Hampshire Gazette (2 Nov. 1775):

Battle of Trenton / Washington Crossing the Delaware (Leutze, 1851):

Battle of Princeton: “It is all but certain that blacks and whites fought side-by-side at Princeton, charging across the frozen ground of Maxwell’s Field to rout the British army in a crucial counterattack…  So diverse was the Continental Army at the time that a French staff officer referred to the American fighting force as “speckled”…” ~ “Black Valor at Princeton: The Role of African Americans at the Battle of Princeton” (Battlefields.org)