Edward “Ned” Hector, Revolutionary War Hero - Time Traveler

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The Freedom Valley Chronicles: Hector Street and Edward “Ned” Hector

It is housed in the basement of the North Coventry Township Building and relies heavily on donations from the local community to assist those in need. We urge you to join in the commitment and help provide canned foods, dried boxed goods, as well as household, personal and paper products.

Staffed by volunteers, the Food Pantry distributes to its clients monthly on the first Tuesday of the month from 9: Johnson who celebrated St. Under the direction of Rev.

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Palmer the Guyton Memorial Hall was dedicated on September 16, Pastor Elton Guyton served St. Guyton posted many accomplishments throughout his 18 years of service to the church and was honored with St.

Patterson Payne has been serving St. Reverend Patterson has no intentions of taking her foot off the gas, she has initiated a number of programs over the years and recently completed a total interior make-over of the church in an effort to better serve the congregation and members of the community. In an effort to stay closer to home a temporary church was set up in in the old James Hall Mill then located in West Conshohocken.

On April 29, the church was organized by the late founders Rev. Marshall Lee was called to the pastorate, April 29, , and a year later in St. An influx of African American citizens in Conshohocken followed.

With the influx of African American Baptist, St. These years were exciting times in our borough especially for our African American citizens.

Both of the black churches were thriving, many of the African American students going to our schools were involved in sports at the local high schools, other kids were involved in programs at the Fellowship House and or parks. Many more jobs outside the steel mills were opening up and the borough had many firsts by leading African American residents.

James Groves, a very well respected Pastor at St.

In the Battle of Brandywine he disregarded his orders to abandon everything and retreat. Edward Hector was a free man, since a substitute slave was considered property and what they owned belonged to their master.

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The records indicates Edward Hector served in the military from February , according to the muster roll, to at least December of Edward Hector applied for his pension in When report number is given by the Committee on Claims to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, his application was rejected. He reapplied in , and This area became the Borough of Conshohocken in According to the Federal Census, he is one of the first African American to settle in this area.

As an active part of his community, he paid taxes from to for dogs and a cow.

He died on Jan. His wife, during the process of the interment of her husband, also died. Edward Hector struggled with the social problems of his times.

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Edward Hector was one of the earliest African American to live as a free black person in Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania later to become Conshohocken and was one of the earliest people to move into this area. Hector is remembered in , sixteen years after his death, by the people of the newly formed Conshohocken area. Thirty-two citizens petition the borough council to develop and grade a road passable to wagons and name it Hector Street, to honor this man of African ancestry.

In , a historical plaque is erected at the intersection of Hector and Fayette Street honoring Ned and the many Africans that served during the American Revolution.

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