Isaac Comecho

Quick Facts

Significance:

Patriot of Color at Battle Road

Place of Birth:

Natick, Massachusetts(?)

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

Isaac Comecho^I was baptized on 27 October 1745 in Natick, Massachusetts, the son of Hezekiah and Elizabeth (George) Comecho.^II

It is undoubtedly the same Isaac who marched from Dedham on the Lexington alarm in the company of Capt. William Ellis, in Col. William Heath’s regiment.^III He joined the eight month’s service on 4 May 1775 in the company of Capt. Joseph Guild, in the 36^th (Heath’s former) regiment. This company served at Roxbury during the Battle of Bunker Hill. On the 5 October 1775 roll, he was serving at Fort. No. 2.^IV

Footnotes:

1. Love, W. DeLoss, Ph.D. Samson Occum and the Christian Indians of New England (1899), 95 states that this name was originally Sokomecho.
2. Vital Records to 1850. Births, Marriages and Deaths. Vols for most Massachusetts towns, Natick, Births, 28; referencing a Congregational Church record. See Vital Records to 1850. Births, Marriages and Deaths. Vols for most Massachusetts towns, Natick, Marriages, 130 for the marriage of his parents.
3. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908) 3:857, listed as ‘Comecher.’ Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.” Coburn, Frank Warren. Muster Rolls of the Participating Companies of American Militia and Minute-Men in The Battle of April 19, 1775, … (1912), 57 lists Isaac as present at Battle Road.
4. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908) 3:851, listed as ‘Comachau.’ Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”

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