Nathan Weston

Quick Facts

Significance:

Patriot of Color at the Battle of Bunker Hill

Place of Birth:

Reading, Massachusetts

Date of Birth:

March 17, 1740

Date of Death:

October 1832

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

Nathan Weston was born on 17 March 1740^I at Reading, Massachusetts.^II

He joined the eight month’s service in the company of Capt. Ezra Town, in Col. James Reed’s 3^rd New Hampshire regiment of foot. The descriptive roll of the company lists him as follows:^III

age: 30
stature: 5 ft. 5 in.
complexion: Black
hair: black
occupation: carpenter
birthplace: Reading
residence: New Ipswich
enlisted: May 4, 1775

He died in October, 1832.^IV

Footnotes:

1. Sons of the American Revolution. Lineage Book. Books available for more northeastern states, California (1993):1246.
2. Secretary of Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908), 16:917-918. Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”
3. Ibid.
4. Sons of the American Revolution. Lineage Book. Books available for more northeastern states, California (1993):1246; note that National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR). DAR Lineage Books (1890-1921). 166 vols, 32:339 is in conflict with all the above – there must have been another Nathan Weston and a confusion between the two exists

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