Citation - Independent Chronicle: 1783.09.25

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Index Entry Band of music, in Boston, in procession, for funeral, played funeral dirge 
Location Boston 
Citation
IC.783.039
25 Sep 1783:32 (16/608)
Last Monday the Boston Regiment of Militia. . . [18 lines,
was reviewed on the common, officers had dinner.]  About 5
o'clock they attended the funeral of Lieut. Col. Joseph
Torry (a valuable officer of Brigadier Gen. Hazen's
Regiment) where Major Davis's Corps of Artillery marched in
funeral order, then proceeded the officers of the Boston
Regiment, after them the officers of the Continental Army,
the Band playing a funeral dirge. . . [8 lines]


Generic Title Independent Chronicle 
Date 1783.09.25 
Publisher Willis, Nathaniel 
City, State Boston, MA 
Year 1783 
Bibliography B0017966
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