I am a balck man.

My name was Wentworth Cheswell

My grandfather was a freed slave and the first known African American property owner in America. He owned hundreds of acres. My father worked for John Paul Jones and earned enough money to provide me with the best education money could buy. I was a patriot leader. I fought in the Revolutionary war along side free blacks, slaves who were earning their freedom, and whites. Along with Paul Revere, I and dozens of other patriots participated in the midnight ride.