Prince Buxton

Quick Facts

Significance:

Patriot of Color at the Battle of Bunker Hill

Place of Birth:

Danvers, 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 Prince Buxton.^I

He enlisted on 29 May 1775 in the company of Lt. Daniel Galusha, in Col. (Benjamin) Ruggles Woodbridge’s regiment. Capt. Eleazer Lindsey took over command of the company on 3 August 1775. On 25 October 1775, in Malden, 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) 2:977. Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”

Learn more about Quintal's study.