ame or a related Montgomery to the one who killed Crispus Attucks at
Boston.

Hamet, one of General Washington's Negroes, was drawing a pension as a
revolutionary soldier as late as 1839, Oliver Cromwell served six years
and nine months in Col. Israel Shreve's regiment of New Jersey troops
under Washington's immediate command. Charles Bowles became an American
soldier at the age of sixteen years and served to the end of the
Revolution. Seymour Burr and Jeremy Jonah were Negro soldiers in a
Connecticut regiment.

A Negro whose name is not known obtained the countersign by which Mad
Anthony Wayne was enabled to take Stony Point, and guided and helped him
to do so.

Jack Grove was a Negro steward on board an American vessel which the
British captured. He figured out that the vessel could be retaken if
sufficient courage were shown. He insisted and at length prevailed upon
his captain to make the attempt, which was successful.

There was in Massachusetts during those Revolutionary days one company
of Negro men bearing a special designation, "The Bucks." It was a
notable body of men. At the close of the war its fame and services were
recognized by John Hancock presenting to it a beautiful banner.

The European struggle recently ended furnished a remarkable example of
female heroism and devotion to country in the case of the Russian woman
who enlisted as a common soldier in the army of the Czar, served with
distinction and finally organized an effective unit of female soldiers
known as the "Battalion of Death." More resourceful and no less
remarkable and heroic, is the case of Deborah Gannet, a Negro woman
soldier of the Revolution, which may be summed up in the following
resolution passed by the General Court of Massachusetts during the
session of 1791:--

"XXIII--Whereas, it appears to this court that the said Deborah
Gannett enlisted, under the name of Robert Shurtliff, in Capt
Webb's company, in the Fourth Massachusetts regiment, on May 20,
1782, and did actually perform the duties of a soldier, in the late
army of the United States to the 23rd day of October, 1783, for
which she has received no compensation; and, whereas, it further
appears that the said Deborah exhibited an extraordinary instance
of female heroism by discharging the duties of a faithful, gallant
soldier, and at the same time preserving the virtue and chastity of
her sex unsuspected and unblemished