Cuff Nimrod

Quick Facts

Significance:

Patriot of Color at the Battle of Bunker Hill

Place of Birth:

Sudbury, Massachusetts(?)

Date of Birth:

Circa 1753

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

Cuff Nimrod¹ was born circa 1753.²

He joined the eight month’s service on 30 April 1775 in the company of Capt. Thaddeus Russell, in Col. Jonathan Brewer’s regiment.³ This company served in the Battle of Bunker Hill on the diagonal between the redoubt and the breastwork. On 16 July 1775, he served on the main guard under Lt. Col. Loammi Baldwin at Prospect Hill.⁴ He is listed from Sudbury on the October 1775 roll.⁵ The 26 October 1775 roll lists him on an ‘order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Cambridge Camp.’⁶

In 1776, he served in Capt. Amasa Cranston’s company, in Col. Eleazer Brooks’ regiment.⁷

He was married on 14 January 1779 in Natick to Alice Kent. At the time, he was ‘of Sudbury.’⁸

Footnotes:

1. Soldier description unavailable – soldier placed in database based on given (first) name alone.
2. Birth date backwardly-computed, based on average age of marriage of 26 (per study of compiler).
3. Secretary of Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908), 11:477, listed as ‘Nimroo.’ Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”
4. Ibid, listed as ‘Nimrod.’
5. Ibid 11:476, listed as ‘Nimro.’
6. Ibid 11:477, listed as ‘Nimroe.’
7. Ibid 11:324, listed as ‘Nemro.’
8. Vital Records to 1850. Births, Marriages and Deaths. Vols for most Massachusetts towns, Natick, Marriages, 169, listed as ‘Nimro.’ Intentions were also filed.

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