Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Branch: Continental Marines
Unit: Continental Navy flagship Alfred
Date of Sacrifice: April 6, 1776 - KIA at sea near Block Island, Rhode Island
Age: unknown
Conflict: Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

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Sources
Artist’s Impression: Craig Du Mez
Jason Q. Bohm, Washington’s Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution, 1775-1777
History.com: Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps
Marine Corps University: A Chronology of the United States Marine Corps, 1775-1934, vol. 1
Marine Corps Association: The First of Many
John D. Gresham, Defense Media Network: Revolutionary War: Battle of Nassau
Jeff Dacus, Journal of the American Revolution: Gunpowder, the Bahamas, and the First Marine Killed in Action
Eric Sterner, Journal of the American Revolution: Engaging the Glasgow
Marine Corps University: A Pictorial History, The Marines in the Revolution
We Are the Mighty: A tiny Marine Corps’ big successes in the Revolution