Mark Anthony

Quick Facts

Significance:

Patriot of Color at the Battle of Bunker Hill

Place of Birth:

Newbury, Massachusetts(?)

Date of Birth:

Circa 1745

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

Mark Anthony¹ was born circa 1745.²

He joined the eight month’s service from Newbury on 1 May 1775, in the company of Capt. Jacob Gerrish in Col. Moses Little’s regiment.³ On 3 July 1775, he served on the main guard under Lt. Col. Loammi Baldwin.⁴ He is listed on the 1 August 1775 muster roll and on an October 1775 roll in which he is described as:

age: 30

He is also shown in the same unit on a 27 December 1775 ‘order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money,’ being ‘reported a servant.’⁵

Footnotes:

1. Soldier description unavailable – soldier placed in database based on status of slave/servant alone. 
2. Birth date backwardly-computed, based on age in military descriptive roll.
3. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908) 1:280, listed as ‘Anthony.’ Also 2-CD Family Tree Maker^TM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”
4. Ibid 3:73, listed as ‘Mar Canteney.’
5. Ibid 1:280.

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