Jude Hall

Jude was one of the longest serving soldiers and fought in the Revolutionary War for eight years, earning his freedom from slavery.

"Jude's Pond", located on 70 Drinkwater Road in Exeter, New Hampshire, was his homestead as a free man and still bears his name.

Roberts gave affidavit testimony regarding 18-year-old James' abduction in 1819 from his home on Drinkwater Road by an Exeter citizen, (as described in the House Servant's Directory's 2015 edition "introduction xi" by Graham Russell Hodges).

Conflicting stories show that Rhoda Hall also sent an affidavit into The Liberator Newspaper, which was printed on March 8, 1834, saying James sailed on the ship "Wallace" out of Newburyport, MA., under command of Capt.

Three of Jude and Rhoda's grandsons, Moses, Aaron and Luke Hall served in the Civil War.

In his history of the town of Exeter, published in 1888, Charles Henry Bell penned a memorable description of Jude Hall as "a man of powerful physique...it is said that the parts of his ribs which are usually cartilaginous were of solid bone, so that his vital organs were enclosed in a sort of osseous case."

Hall died in 1827, and his actual gravesite is unknown although old articles describe his grave as being in the Winter Street Cemetery "near to the old crypt."