Adam (Gardner)

Quick Facts

Significance:

Patriot of Color at Battle Road

Place of Birth:

Brookline, Massachusetts(?)

Place of Burial:

Brookline, Massachusetts

Cemetery Name:

Walnut Street Cemetery

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

Nothing is known of Adam’s^I early life.

He served at Battle Road in the company of Capt. Thomas White, in Col. William Heath’s regiment. On the roll he is listed as “Squire Gardner’s Adam.”^II

He is buried in the Walnut Street Cemetery of Brookline, Massachusetts.^III

Footnotes:

1. Soldier description unavailable – soldier placed in database based on status of slave/servant alone. 
2. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908) 12:788. Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.” Also Coburn, Frank Warren. Muster Rolls of the Participating Companies of American Militia and Minute-Men in The Battle of April 19, 1775, … (1912), 46.
3. Cummings, Harriet Alma. Burials and Inscriptions in the Walnut Street Cemetery of Brookline, Massachusetts … (1920), 9. This cemetery was visited in August 2000 and thoroughly searched but Adam’s gravesite could not be found.

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