Pomp Green

Quick Facts

Significance:

Patriot of Color at the Battle of Bunker Hill

Place of Birth:

Stoneham, 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 Pomp Green.^I

He enlisted on 30 May 1775 in the company of Capt. Samuel Sprague, in Col. Samuel Gerrish’s regiment. On 13 June 1775 he, with others at the Camp at Cambridge, took an oath required by Congress. His Colonel was cashiered because of behavior at the Battle scene and Lt. Col. Loammi Baldwin took over. Green was at ‘Camp at Chelsea’ in August 1775 and still there on 30 December 1775 when he received an ‘order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money.’^II

Footnotes:

1. Soldier description unavailable – soldier placed in database based on given (first) name alone. 
2. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908) 6:828. Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”

Learn more about Quintal's study.