Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Buckminster, William

BUCKMINSTER, William, soldier, b. in Framingham, Mass., 15 Dec, 1736; d. 22 June, 1786; removed to Barre in 1757, commanded the minute-men in 1774, was lieutenant-colonel of Brewer's regiment at Bunker Hill, and received there a wound that crippled him for life.