Tony Andrews

Quick Facts

Significance:

Patriot of Color at the Battle of Bunker Hill

Place of Birth:

Billerica, 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 Tony Andrews.^I

He joined the eight month’s service on 11 May 1775 from Billerica (MA), in the company of Capt. William Smith in Col. John Nixon’s regiment. His name appears on a 16 June 1775 order for advanced pay, on the 1 August 1775 roll,^II and on a 30 September 1775 company return.^III His name appears on an 18 December 1775 ‘certificate of service in support of an order for bounty coat, dated Winter Hill.’^IV

This certificate was signed by his Captain who stated that ‘[Richard] Reed and Tony Andrews belonging to his company, Col. Nixon’s regt., had not received bounty coats or their equivalent in money.’^V On 1 January 1776, his name appears on a receipt for wages dated Camp Mt. Washington.

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) 1:260, listed as ‘Andrews.’ Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”
3. Ibid 1:242, listed as ‘Andrew.’
4. Ibid 1:260.
5. Ibid 13:89, under the entry for Richard Reed.

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