Elizabeth Freeman’s Revolutionary War veterans

Many people have read at one time or another about Elizabeth Freeman, known earlier as Mum Bett or Mumbet. She brought one of two lawsuits widely credited with ending slavery in Massachusetts in 1781. What is less well known is that her first husband died serving in the Continental Army at the Battle of Saratoga, and her second husband, Jacob Burghardt, was a veteran who survived his Revolutionary War service.