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Prince, Dinah and Prince’s brother Cuffee built a house. Dinah taught children in the building, calling it the Ladies Charitable African School. William Whipple became an associate justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire. He fell off his horse while riding the circuit in 1785, and he died of a heart ailment shortly thereafter. Prince ...
Jul 13, 2007 · For instance, Whipple’s wife, Dinah, who later ran a school for African children, had been raised in the household of a prominent local minister. Prince married Dinah on her 21st birthday, which also was the date of her manumission, February 22, 1781. Whipple, however, was not freed until 1784.
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- William Cooper Nell’s The Colored Patriot of The American Revolution
- Early Life
- Politics of War
- Declaration of Independence
- Prince Whipple Was Not at Washington’s Crossing
- Battle of Saratoga
- Prince The ‘Faithful Servant’; Filling The Role as Racist Archetype
- Battle of Rhode Island
- Prince Petitions For Freedom
- Marriage, Manumit, and Remembrance
For well over a hundred years, what we knew of Prince Whipple was penned by African American abolitionist William Cooper Nell in his ground breaking 1852 historical text, The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution. Over the years, mainly most recently, much of what Nell wrote about Prince has been either proven incorrect or remains questionabl...
Nell wrote that Prince had been a member of a wealthy family of Ambou, Central Africa. That at age ten, he and his cousin were sent to America to be educated. The captain transporting them proved to be a ‘treacherous villain’ and they were carried to Baltimore where they were sold as slaves to a wealthy sea captain; General William Whipple. Of this...
As the relationship between England and her colonies worsened, particularly in Sons of Liberty hotbed New England, it was not long before Captain Whipple obtained a leading role in the local militia and assemblies of rebellion. The year 1775 was important for William. He was appointed Colonel of the 1st New Hampshire State Militia Regiment. Though ...
At Philadelphia, William Whipple would sign his name, along with fifty-four other delegates, to the Declaration of Independence. Like so many Founding Fathers, he had no trouble affixing his signature to a document that proclaimed all men are created equal while he himself not only owned a slave, but benefited financially from the slave trade. Will...
By late 1776, Washington’s army was driven out of New York City. The Continental Army was chased across New Jersey and by mid-December, 1776, sought refuge in Pennsylvania, establishing headquarters just west of the Delaware River. During this time, the fate of Philadelphia was in the balance. All thought that British General Charles Cornwallis wou...
By the summer of 1777, William and Prince were back in New Hampshire. At Exeter, the state legislature, as in other New England states, were assembling local militias to counter the British invasion from Canada. Colonel Whipple was commissioned a Brigadier General and given command of four New Hampshire state militia regiments. The militias were ca...
It was prior to General Whipple marching his brigade of militia to Saratoga that an exchange between master and slave was reported, in which Whipple’s fidelity and desire for freedom was supposedly proclaimed. First by 18thcentury romantics, it continued right up to the 1960’s and the Civil Rights movements. Basically, it went like this: “On way to...
As at Saratoga, Brigadier General Whipple’s brigade would not see any action. They were part of the initial siege of British defenses at Newport that began on August 9th. American commander, Major General John Sullivanferried his 11,000-man army of eight Continental Regiments and thirteen State Militia Regiments onto Aquidneck Island and marched so...
After the Battle of Rhode Island, Prince and William Whipple returned to Portsmouth. Prince would remain a slave and in the service of William at his home. The following year, on November 12th, 1779, Prince, along with nineteen other African American slaves, signed a petition for their freedom through the New Hampshire Assembly meeting in Exeter. I...
On Feb. 22, 1781, Prince married Dinah Chase (1760-1846), aged 21, who was enslaved by the Reverend Chase of Newcastle, who manumitted her the same day of her wedding. William Whipple wasn’t about to concede his legendary promise of freedom. The day of Prince’s wedding, William proclaimed that Prince would be granted the rights of a freeman, while ...
Prince Whipple (1750–1796) was an African American slave and later freedman. He was a soldier and a bodyguard during the American Revolution under his slaveowner General William Whipple of the New Hampshire Militia who formally manumitted him in 1784. Prince is depicted in Emanuel Leutze 's painting Washington Crossing the Delaware and Thomas ...
William Whipple died one year after Prince's emancipation, and Whipple's widow allowed Prince and Dinah to live in a house on a lot behind her mansion. Prince, Dinah, their daughters, Esther and Elizabeth, Cuff, and Cuff's wife Rebecca Daverson, and their children crowded in to the house and lived there for forty years.
Four years after marrying, Prince and Dinah moved with Prince's brother and sister-in-law, Cuffee and Rebecca Whipple, to a house on High Street. Around 1806, Dinah opened a school, likely in their house, the Ladies Charitable African School. The kind of school that it was is unclear. The school operated until 1832. In 1796, Prince Whipple died ...
Feb 23, 2024 · In the mid-1700s, two boys from Ghana, Prince and Cuffee, were sold to William and Joseph Whipple. Prince and Cuffee were freed in 1784. Their families lived together at the house, which was moved ...
