James Anthony, of Black and Indigenous heritage, is associated with Natick in some military records, but little is known of his life before the war.  His surname “Anthony” places him as a descendant of one of the first Indigenous families of Natick after it was established as a mission or Praying Town in 1651.

Lieutenant John Bacon (1721 - 1775) of English heritage was among the fifty Americans killed or mortally wounded on April 19, 1775, during the British retreat from Concord. At 54 years old, he was the first Natick resident to give his life for the cause of independence.

Lieutenant William Boden, Esq. (1735 - 1807) of English heritage, was 40 years old at the outbreak of the American Revolution. He owned a farm and served as Natick’s first English Justice of the Peace.

Major Hezekiah Broad (1746-1823) of English heritage, rose in the ranks from Sergeant to Major in the years from 1775 to 1780. He marched on Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and to Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island. 

Private Thomas Broad Jr.  (1744-1807) was baptized in 1744 (son of Thomas). He married Abigail Mann in 1768 and was the father of five children. He marched on the alarm of 19 April 1775 with Captain Joseph Morse’s Company in Colonel Samuel Bullard’s regiment. He was later sent to Rhode Island in August of 1780. He died in 1807 and was buried in Natick. 

Private John Chewen (unknown- 1821) was of Indigenous heritage. Prior to his military service in the Revolutionary War, little is known about Chewen. In various documents his last name is recorded alternately as Chorus, Cheuin, Choar, Chore and Chowen. Since he served as a Minuteman, it is reasonable to assume that Chewen was free (not enslaved or indentured) in 1775.

In 1758, John Coolidge (1714 - 1795) of English heritage, received a commission to serve as Captain of the Natick Company in the Middlesex County Militia. Coolidge assumed the role at the age of 44 in the midst of the Seven Years, or French and Indian War.

Private Jeremiah Crocker’s Revolutionary War service was extensive. According to his personal account, he served beginning in 1775, possibly at Bunker Hill, for a span of 26 months over the course of three enlistments. During this time he was sent to Rhode Island, to Springfield and to West Point. In his application for a soldier's pension, Crocker states that he was born in Natick around 1742, but little else is known about his life in Natick.

Lieutenant Ephraim Dana (1744 - 1792) of English heritage, was 31 years old when he marched on Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. He later served under Major Hezekiah Broad in Natick’s Fifth Company. Dana was a blacksmith and operated his shop at the corner of Leach’s Lane in South Natick. 

Thomas Dority was a Black veteran of the Revolutionary War. On April 30, 1775, Private Thomas Dority enlisted in the company of Captain James Mellen, in Colonel Jonathan Ward’s Regiment.

Captain Asa Drury (1748 - 1816) of English heritage, was born in Framingham but later moved to Natick. He married Dolly Gleason of Framingham in 1768 and they had four children. He served as a Corporal, answering the alarm for Lexington in April 1775 and served at Bunker Hill in June 1775. By 1780, he had been promoted to Captain and served in Rhode Island. Drury was elected to Natick’s Select Board in 1796.

Private Isaac Dunton, of English heritage, was born in Natick in 1734, the child of Thomas and Sarah. He married Sarah Jennings in 1761. Together they had five children. He marched on the alarm of 19 April 1775 in Captain Joseph Morse’s Company and Colonel Samuel Bullard’s Regiment.

Isaac Dunton Jr. (1765 - 1791) of English heritage, was the son of Isaac Dunton Sr. and Sarah Jennings. He married Beulah Morse in Natick in 1786. He enlisted in 1781 at the age of 16 for three years service in the Continental Army.

Sergeant Elijah Esty (1736 - 1824) of English heritage, was 39 years old when he enlisted as a private in Captain Joseph Morse's company. He responded to the alarm on April 19, 1775, but his regiment did not reach Lexington in time for the battle.

Cato Fair was a Black and Indigenous veteran of the Revolutionary War who was born in Natick circa 1735.

On May 4, 1775, Cato Fair enlisted in the company of Captain James Mellen’s Company, in Colonel Jonathan Ward’s Regiment. Private Fair and the regiment saw action during the Siege of Boston.  Private Fair served for 8 months.

Captain John Felch (1729 - 1776), of English heritage, first served as a private, answering the alarm of 19 April at Lexington. He fought at Bunker Hill; his name appears on the Bunker Hill Muster Roll, in the collections of the Natick Historical Society.

Brothers Joshua (1748 - 1796) and Moses (1746 - 1810) Fisk, of English heritage, answered the alarm of 19 April at Lexington and served at Bunker Hill. Joshua was promoted to Captain and answered the alarm at Rhode Island.

Thomas Ferrit was born in Natick in 1751.  He was a veteran of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.  On April 19, 1775, as a resident of the 4th Parish of Dedham, Private Thomas Ferrit responded to the Lexington Alarm as a member of Capt. Ebenezer Battle’s company.

John Ferrit was born in Natick in 1753.  He was a veteran of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.  On April 19, 1775, Natick resident, Private John Ferrit responded to the Lexington Alarm as a member of Captain Joseph Morse’s Company.  

Caesar Ferrit was likely born enslaved on a Caribbean island in 1720.  Later as a freeman living in Massachusetts, Ferrit became a yeoman farmer, Natick resident and veteran of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.