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A formerly enslaved person, he fought with the British in the American Revolution. When the British failed to provide cleared farmland to ex-soldiers (as previously promised), he protested. In 1792, he and 1,200 other ex-soldiers were transported to Sierra Leone and each given 20-acre farms.
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