Courageous Black patriots from Virginia's Northern Neck served bravely for the nation's independence during the American Revolutionary War. They came from King George, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Lancaster, Stafford, and Richmond and included Charles Ailstock, Augustine Boyd, Burton Boyd, John Carey, William Cassidy, James Causey, William Causey, Daniel Davis, John Davise, George Day, Thomas Day, John DeBaptist, Nathan Fry, Peter Haws, William Haws, Lewis Hinton, Luke Hughes, Joyles, Nathanial Kenardy, John Laws, Timothy Laws, William Laws, William Lee, Ambrose Lewis, Charles Lewis, James Lucas, John Lucas, Thomas Mahorney, Bennett McCoy, James McCoy, Richard McGee, Anthony Morrison, Isaac Needham, Amos Nickens, Edward Nickens, Hezekiah Nickens, James Nickens of Lancaster, James Nickens of Northumberland, James Nickens of Stafford, John Nickens, Nathaniel Nickens, Richard Nickens, Robert Nickens, William Nickens, William Dats, Charles Payne, Joshua Payne, Andrew Pebbles, Billy Pinn, James Pinn, John Pinn, Robert Pinn, Thomas Pinn, Joseph Ranger, William Rich, Godfrey Richeson, Shadrack Shavers, Thomas Shaw, Edward Sorrell, James Sorrell, Thomas Sorrell, James Tate, Jesse Tate, Spencer Thomas, Aaron Weaver, Elijah Weaver, John Weaver, Richard Weaver, Henry Welch, Charles Whitson, Charles Wood, John Wood, Phillip Wood, and Thomas Wood.