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1882 biography
'''Peter Salem''' was a former slave who served as a soldier in the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]], and is often times regarded as the hero of the battle.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://saintpaulrepublicans.us/blog/2013/02/03/peter-salem-hero-at-the-battle-of-bunker-hill/ |title=Peter Salem, Hero at the Battle of Bunker Hill }}</ref>
'''Peter Salem''' (sometimes known as '''Salem Middlesex''') was a former slave who served as a soldier in the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]], and is often times regarded as the hero of the battle.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://saintpaulrepublicans.us/blog/2013/02/03/peter-salem-hero-at-the-battle-of-bunker-hill/ |title=Peter Salem, Hero at the Battle of Bunker Hill }}</ref>
==Early Life==
Salem was born in Framingham, and, in 1783, married Katie Benson, a granddaughter of Nero, living for a time near what is now the state muster field.
==Career==
Peter Salem was the colored man who particularly distinguished himself in the Revolutionary war by shooting down Major Pitcairn at the battle of Bunker Hill, as he was mounting a redoubt, and shouting, “The day is ours 1” this being the time when Pitcairn fell back into the arms of his son. Peter Salem served faithfully in the war for seven years in the companies of minute men under the command of Captain John Nixon and Captain Simon Edgell, of Framingham, and came out of it unharmed. He was a slave, and was owned, originally, by Captain Jeremiah Belknap, of Framingham, being sold by him to Major Lawson Buckminister of that town, he becoming a free man when he joined the army.
==Legacy==
On the 10th of April, 1882, the town of Framingham voted to place a memorial stone over the grave of Peter Salem. The committee in charge of the matter placed a granite memorial over his grave, and it bears the following inscription: "Peter Salem, a soldier of the Revolution, died August 16, 1816. Concord, Bunker Hill, Saratoga. Erected by the town, 1882."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IFlAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA214 The Budget: Containing the Annual Reports of the General Officers of the African M. E. Church of the United States of America; with Facts and Figures, Historical Data of the Colored Methodist Church in Particular, and Universal Methodism in General; Together with Religious, Educational and Political Information Pertaining to the Colored Race]</ref>
==Later Life and Death==
He removed to Leicester after the close of the war, his last abode in that town being a cabin on the road leading from Leicester to Auburn. He was removed to Framingham, where he had gained a settlement in 1816, and there he died.
==See Also==
==See Also==