Career
He was the first soldier to fall at the Battle of Bunker Hill in the Asa Pollard born on November 15, 1735 in North Billerica, Massachusetts from John and Mary Pollard, two farmers. Pollard enlisted in the Continental Army on May 8, 1775, and his first battle was the Battle at Lexington and Concord He died in the Battle of Bunker Hill(fought on Breed"s Hill)when a cannonball shot from a ship, took off his head