Bill Richmond
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Bill Richmond (1763–December 28, 1829) was an American boxer, born a slave in Cuckold's Town (now Richmondtown), Staten Island, New York.
Richmond was the servant of Lord Percy, the Duke of Northumberland, during the American Revolutionary War, who took him to England in 1777. On September 26, 1776, Richmond was the hangman who executed Nathan Hale.[1] Later, Richmond was sent to school in Yorkshire and apprenticed to a cabinet maker in York. However, he made his career as a boxer, narrowly losing to later British and world champion Tom Cribb. After his retirement from boxing, he bought the Horse and Dolphin pub in Leicester Square and set up a boxing academy.
He was also a friend and coach of Tom Molineaux, another freed slave who took up boxing in England and fought Cribb twice for the title of world champion.
He died at his home in London in 1829.
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- ^ A CHRONOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MILITARY SERVICE. Integration of the Armed Forces. Redstone Arsenal Historical Information. Retrieved on February 9, 2007.
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