Ambo (1714–1801) was an enslaved man who served in the French and Indian Wars alongside Bristow, fighting for the British colonial forces in his 40s — an older age for military service. He was likely born in Africa and was enslaved by Josiah Hart in Farmington, Connecticut. Ambo served under Col. Phineas Lyman in the First Connecticut Regiment from around 1755 to 1761, participating in campaigns around Lake Champlain, including the costly defeat at Fort Ticonderoga in 1758, where he was injured. In 1756, records show he fell ill while stationed in Albany, though he recovered and continued his service. His path to freedom came through his enslaver’s will — Josiah Hart died in January 1758 and promised Ambo his freedom, with Farmington records showing Ambo receiving two acres of land along the Farmington River that same year. By 1763, Ambo sold that land, a transaction that signals he was living as a free man. Though freed, he remained in the area near those who had once enslaved him, and the acknowledgment of his death in church records suggests he was regarded as a free man of some standing in his community — a status shaped in no small part by his years of military service.