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Agrippa Hull: The Sage of Stockbridge
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Agrippa Hull: The Sage of Stockbridge

When he died in 1848, Agrippa Hull was Stockbridge, Massachusetts's last surviving veteran of the American Revolutionary War. He had become the role model adults in the village pointed out to their youth, a model citizen and village sage

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Gage: “the Rebels have brought all the Savages they could against us here.”
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Gage: “the Rebels have brought all the Savages they could against us here.”

Among the many Native American nations who fought for American independence from the British Empire, the Stockbridge were the first, fighting at Bunker Hill, White Plains, Saratoga, and the Philadelphia campaign, before most of the company was killed in a British ambush in what is now Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

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