Pompey Fisk

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:

Pompey Fisk was described as ‘colored.’^I

He joined the eight month’s service on 17 May 1775 in the company of Capt. Oliver Parker, in Col. William Prescott’s regiment.^II This company served in the Battle of Bunker Hill in the redoubt.

On 31 October 1775, he was in Capt. Ephraim Corey’s company in receipt of an ‘order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money.’^III On 1 December 1775, he reenlisted serving in Capt. James Perry’s company, in Col. Paul Dudley Sargent’s regiment. On 3 January 1776, he received a ‘firelock.’^IV

Footnotes:

1. Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society. 4 vols, 432.
2. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908) 5:728. Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.” After the Battle of Bunker Hill, Capt. Parker left the service, with command of the company falling to Lt. Nathaniel Sartwell.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.

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