Prince Estabrook

Prince Estabrook was a free Black-American man and Minutemen Private who fought and was wounded at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the initial engagements of the American Revolutionary War. An undated broadside from the time identified him as "a Negro Man", spelled his name Easterbrooks, and listed him among the wounded from Lexington, Massachusetts. Born around 1741, he was enslaved by the family of Benjamin Estabrook from whom he most likely took his name. He was freed.