LEMUEL HAYNES

REVOUTIONARY WAR

Lemuel Haynes the abandoned child of an African father and a white woman of respectable ancestry was born in 1753 at west Hartford, Connecticut. Five months later he was bound to service until the age of 21 to David Rose of middle Granville, Massachusetts.

Lemuel Haynes life story

Role figure played in the Revolutionary War

When his indenture ended in 1774, Haynes enlisted as all minuteman in the local militia.

Black minutemen most notably Lemuel Haynes, Peter Salem and Pomp Blackman in all, more blacks became active loyalist than patriots during the war.

Loyalist or Patriot