Marcus Shed

Quick Facts

Significance:

Patriot of Color at the Battle of Bunker Hill

Place of Birth:

Tewksbury, 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 Marcus Shed.^I

He joined the eight month’s service on 30 May 1775 in the company of Capt. Charles Furbush, in Col. Ebenezer Bridge’s regiment. His name is listed on a receipt for advanced pay dated 30 June 1775 and on the 1 August 1775 muster roll.^II The last record of service for him is an ‘order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Cambridge, Nov. 21, 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), 14:80; listed as ‘Shead.’ Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”
3. Ibid 14:93, listed as ‘Shed.’

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