Cato Boardman

Quick Facts

Significance:

Person of Color at Battle Road

Place of Birth:

Cambridge, Massachusetts(?)

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

Nothing is known of Cato Boardman’s early life.

He served at Battle Road in the company of Capt. Samuel Thatcher, in Col. Thomas Gardner’s regiment. On the roll he is listed as ‘a negro.’^I

Footnotes:

1. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908) 2:283. Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”; also, Coburn, Frank Warren. Muster Rolls of the Participating Companies of American Militia and Minute-Men in The Battle of April 19, 1775, … (1912), 41.

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