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CJ-NH.776.017
17 Apr 1776:42 (444)
Williamsburgh, (Virginia), March 22. . . [49 lines] We hear
that Lord Dunmore's Royal Regiment of Black Fusileers is
already recruited, with runaway and stolen Negroes, to the
formidable number of 80 effective men, who, after doing the
drudgery of the day (such as acting scullions, &c. on board
the fleet) are ordered upon deck to perform the military
exercise; and, to comply with their native warlike genius,
instead of the drowsy drum and fife, will be gratified with
the use of the sprightly and enlivening barrafoo, an
instrument peculiarly adapted to the martial tune of "Hungry
Niger, parch'd Corn!" and which from henceforward is to be
styled, by way of eminence, the Blackbird March.
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