Jude Hall

Jude (Judas) Hall was an African-American soldier in the American Revolutionary War. He served from 1775 to 1783, one of the longest serving soldiers either Black or white, and earned his freedom from slavery. After the war, he married and settled in Exeter, New Hampshire, where his homestead is still known as Jude's Pond. Three of his children were kidnapped and sold into slavery, and two of his grandsons fought in the American Civil War.