Private John Gay Jr. (1750 - unknown), likely of English descent/citizenship, marched on Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, and is named on the 1775 Muster Roll. He later enlisted in the Continental Army and served from 1777 - 1781 under Colonel Israel Putnam.  His service took him as far as West Point.

Private Nicodemus Gigger (1751 - 1804), is a Black and Indigenous veteran of the Revolutionary War. He enlisted as a private out of Sudbury in Colonel William Prescott’s Regiment on October 7, 1775. Little is known of Gigger’s service, but Prescott led the colonial forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, and later saw action defending New York City and at Saratoga.

Fifer William Goodenow (1759 - 1838), likely of English descent/citizenship, was born in Natick, the son of Elijah and Deborah. He married Phebe (Man) in 1782, and had at least 4 children. Seven people are recorded as living in his household in the 1790 Natick census.

Private Nathan Jenison (1754 - 1783), likely of English descent/citizenship, was one of six children of Robert Jennison of Natick.  He married Sarah Dowse in May 1773 at the age of 19. After the birth of two children, Sarah died in 1779.  He was remarried later that year to Mercy Jones, and they had two children.   

Captain John Jones Jr. (1743-July 4, 1776) of English heritage, was the son of Colonel John Jones and Hannah Morse. He married Betsey (or Betty) Hapsgood in 1769. Jones was born on the family homestead in Dover, but his christening was recorded in Natick, as his father, John Jones, was heavily involved in Natick town affairs as surveyor and justice of the peace, and was also a deacon in the church.

Plato Lambert was a Black veteran of the Revolutionary War who was born in Framingham on December 1, 1737, the child of an enslaved mother. As an infant he was taken from his family and given or sold to Martha Nichols of Framingham. This was a common practice in colonial Massachusetts.

Only the Bunker Hill Muster Roll, recently conserved by the Natick Historical Society, provides the evidence that Henry Loker Jr. (1724 - 1813) likely of English descent/citizenship, fought in the Revolutionary War. Despite a descendant’s narrative that places him at the alarm of April 19 and battles in the Hudson River Valley, we could find no other source to confirm this story.

Captain James Mann (1747 - 1824), likely of English descent/citizenship, married Lydia Chickering of Dover in January 1775. A few months later, in April 1775, Mann responded to the alarm at Lexington. On June 17, 1775, he led a company of Natick men under Colonel Samuel Bullard to the Battle of Bunker Hill. Mann’s name appears at the top of the 1775 Muster Roll for the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Eliakim Morrill (1753 - 1824) likely of English descent/citizenship, was born in Wilmington, Massachusetts and responded to the alarm of 19 April in Lexington from there. He was married in Natick in 1781 and appeared on the Natick roll for the alarm to Rhode Island, serving ten days. In 1782 he purchased two and a quarter acres of land in South Natick where he built the “Old Tavern” and ran it for 17 years. 

Private Samuel Morse Jr. (1750 - 1830), likely of English descent/citizenship, marched to Lexington on the alarm of April 19, 1775, in a five-day enlistment. His name appears on the Bunker Hill Muster Roll for June 17, 1775. He also served from July 28 - 31, 1780 in response to an alarm at Rhode Island.

Private Jonas Obscow (1739-1805) was of Indigenous heritage. He was born in Natick and married Mary Speen in 1764. They had several children together. He enlisted in May of 1775 and served under Captain Joseph Morse's Company in Colonel John Patterson’s regiment. His name appears on an order for a bounty coat or its equivalent dated November 21, 1775.

Joseph Pocknet/Paugenit (unknown - 1777), of Indigenous heritage, was baptized in Natick on November 10, 1754. He enlisted on April 24, 1775 from Framingham in the Company of Captain Thomas Drury, in Colonel John Nixon’s Regiment.

Samuel Pocknett/Paugenit (unknown - 1777), of Indigenous heritage, may have been baptized in Natick along with his kin, Joseph Paugenit. Samuel served in Captain Bailey’s Company of the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment under Colonel John Bailey.

Private Alexander Quapash (1741 - 1776), of Indigenous heritage, was born in Yarmouth, Wampanoag lands, in 1741. He later moved to Dedham and married Sarah David, an Indigenous woman of that town. David died just before the war began in 1774. Quapash enlisted from Dedham on May 8, 1775, into Captain Daniel Whiting’s Company under Colonel Jonathan Brewer in the 13th Massachusetts Regiment. He marched on Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, and was later selected to serve on the Main Guard under Lieutenant Colonel Loammi Baldwin.

Private Thomas Sawin Jr. (1752-1856), of English descent/citizenship, was 23 years old when he responded to the alarm on April 19, 1775. He also marched on Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775 and continued to serve through the fall and winter of 1775 - 76. Thomas was one of ten children born to Thomas Sawin, II (1717–1790) and Abigail “Polly” Morse. Their family home, formerly on South Street, was a meeting place for some Natick Minute Men on their way to Lexington in 1775; it is shown on the 1750 Livermore Map.

Private Henry Smith, likely of English descent/citizenship, son of Timothy and Esther, was born around 1752. He married Mary (aka Molly) Fuller of Boylston in 1791. According to Henry’s son, Amos Smith, Henry was wounded at Bunker Hill when a musket left a “furrow” on his head.

Private Jacob Speen (1754-unknown), was an Indigenous man who was sometimes recorded as “Negro” in military records. He was 21 years old when he enlisted in the Massachusetts Militia and fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. In October 1775, a record lists his name on an “order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money” out of Cambridge Camp. That order places Speen in close proximity to General George Washington’s military headquarters during the Siege of Boston.

Private Caesar Thompson (unknown-1799) was a Black man who was enslaved by Samuel Welles of Natick, a wealthy landowner who had settled in Natick due to the availability of land. In 1775, Welles sent his “negro man” to serve in the campaign on Canada (the unsuccessful mission to capture Quebec led by General Benedict Arnold). He served in many locations during the war, including West Point, the Highlands, the York Hutts, and Phillippsburg (where the British had offered emancipation to any enslaved men who would join their army).

Private John Ting(s), likely of English descent/citizenship, served in Captain Joseph Morse’s Company in Colonel Rufus Putnam’s Regiment and in several other companies and regiments. He was also listed in Continental Army pay accounts from January 1777 to the end of 1779 as well as in Natick Town records for payment for six months service in 1780 in the Continental Army. His name appears on a muster at West Point.

Private Daniel Travis (1742 - 1800), likely of English descent/citizenship, was the son of Joseph and Sarah. He married Thankful Wadkins of Hopkinton in 1766. He marched on the alarm of 19 April 1775 in Captain Joseph Morse’s Company and Colonel Samuel Bullard’s Regiment. He died in 1800 and was buried in Old Dell Park Cemetery.