Living Individual - Details withheldSource - Memorial Record of Alabama, Madison Wisconsin, Brant and Fuller, 1893, p 944: Was a solider in the Revolutionary War for a short time, being killed at the battle of Bunker Hill.
Owen's Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Vol III, p 264, says "one of the first of the American patriots to sacrifice his life for the cause of independence at Bunker Hill
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The Heritage of St. Clair County, Alabama, Heritage Publishing Consultants, Inc., Clanton, AL, 1998, Benjamin and Susannah Smythe (Smith) Burns
"Benjamin's father Peter Burns, was an American patriot who sacrificed his life for the cause of independence during the Revolutionary War.
