Boston Osborn

Quick Facts

Significance:

Patriot of Color at the Battle of Bunker Hill

Place of Birth:

Ipswich, Massachusetts(?)

The following is from the 2004 National Park Service study Patriots of Color researched and prepared by George Quintal:

Nothing is known of the early life of Boston Osborn.^I

He enlisted from Ipswich (MA) on 15 May 1775 as a drummer, in the company of Capt. Nathaniel Wade in Col. Moses Little’s regiment. The October 1775 return lists him as 18 years old.^II

Footnotes:

1. Soldier description unavailable – soldier placed in database based on given (first) name alone.
2. Secretary of Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908), 11:685, listed as ‘Osbern.’ Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”

Learn more about Quintal's study.