On this day 250 years ago on Prospect Hill in the siege lines around Boston, Private Micah Bumpo was serving in the company of Capt. Abijah Child of Col. William Bond’s Massachusetts Regiment and received an “order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money.” Private Bumpo was a man of color who had served from the Lexington Alarm at beginning of the war. His regiment would continue in service until it was disbanded on January 1, 1777 but it is unclear whether Bumpo remained in the regiment until that date.

https://www.nps.gov/people/micah-bumpo.htm

Also on that day on Prospect Hill, Corporal Moses Sleeper recorded in his diary:

Monday Decem 25 Christmas Verry dull Christmas nothing to Eat nor drink to work on Barrk [barracks]

Source: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/revolutionary-war-diary-of-moses-sleeper.htm

I wish you all a Merry Christmas today.