James Anthony, was a Black and Indigenous veteran of the Revolutionary War. He 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), likely of English descent/citizenship, 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. The house in which he was born, the Stephen Bacon House, 105 North Main Street, still stands in Natick.

Lieutenant William Boden, Esq. (1735 - 1807), likely of English descent/citizenship, 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. Boden and his wife, Kezia, generously donated the land that became Boden Lane Cemetery, where they are buried, along with at least a half dozen Revolutionary War soldiers. 

Major Hezekiah Broad (1746-1823), likely of English descent/citizenship, 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), likely of English descent/citizenship, 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.

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’ War, or the French and Indian War. The Commission is signed by Thomas Pownall, Royal Governor of “His Majesty’s Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England.” Additional notations in the margin attest that Coolidge had taken an oath of loyalty to Great Britain.

Private Jeremiah Crocker, a Black solider, had an extensive record of service in the Revolutionary War. According to his personal account, he served beginning in 1775, possibly at Bunker Hill, for 26 months over three enlistments. During this time, he was sent to Rhode Island, Springfield, and 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), likely of English descent/citizenship, 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, Thomas Dority enlisted in Captain James Mellen’s Company, in Colonel Jonathan Ward’s Regiment. On May 15, 1775, Private Thomas Dority “received of the Selectmen of Natick for the use of the Massachusetts service one gun prized at sixteen shillings.” Following the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, he was listed on an order for cartridge boxes.

Captain Asa Drury (1748 - 1816), likely of English descent/citizenship, 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 serving 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, likely of English descent/citizenship, 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) likely of English descent/citizenship, 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), likely of English descent/citizenship, 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. His name appears on the Bunker Hill Muster Roll. 

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), likely of English descent/citizenship, 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.

Caesar Ferrit, (unknown - 1799), of Indigenous, African, and European heritage, 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 fought at the Battle of Lexington and Concord.  On April 19, 1775, Ferrit responded to the Lexington Alarm as a member of Captain Joseph Morse’s Company out of Natick.  

John Ferrit (1753 - unknown), of Indigenous, African, and European heritage, was born in Natick in 1753. On April 19, 1775 Private John Ferrit responded to the Lexington Alarm as a member of Captain Joseph Morse’s Company out of Natick in Colonel Samuel Bullard’s Regiment. 

Thomas Ferrit (1751 - unknown), of Indigenous, African, and European heritage, was born in Natick in 1751. 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 Captain Ebenezer Battle’s Company.

Brothers Joshua (1748 - 1796) and Moses (1746 - 1810) Fisk, likely of English descent/citizenship, 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.