Cuff Wood

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 Wood.^I

He enlisted on 18 May 1775 in the company of Capt. Edward Blake, in Col. Jonathan Brewer’s regiment. By October, Capt. Joseph Stebbins had taken over the company. On 26 October 1775, he was listed on an ‘order for bounty coat dated Camp at Prospect Hill.’^II

It is probably the same man who was confined three nights for fighting on 22 July 1775.^III

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), 17:722. Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”
3. Ibid 17:223. The unit of this man was given as Prescott/Parker. There was no other man named Cuff Wood in the service, indicating that the officer of the guard may have recorded the wrong unit.

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