Cuff Hayes

Quick Facts

Significance:

Patriot of Color at the Battle of Bunker Hill

Place of Birth:

Charlestown, 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 Cuff Hayes.^I

He joined the eight month’s service in the company of Capt. Oliver Parker, in Col. William Prescott’s regiment.^II This company served in the Battle of Bunker Hill in the redoubt.

On 31 October 1775, he was in Capt. Ephraim Corey’s company in receipt of an ‘order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money.’^III On 1 January 1776, he reenlisted serving in Capt. James Perry’s company, in Col. Paul Dudley Sargent’s regiment, for three months.^IV

Footnotes:

1. Soldier description unavailable – soldier placed in database based on given (first) name alone. 
2. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908) 7:41, listed as ‘Haise.’ Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.” After the Battle of Bunker Hill, Capt. Parker left the service and command of the company fell to Lt. Nathaniel Sartwell.
3. Ibid 7:596; See also 7:577, listed under ‘Hay Cust.’
4. Ibid 7:644, listed as ‘Haze, Cofe.’

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