Citation - Independent Ledger: 1783.09.29

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Index Entry Band of music, in Boston, in procession, for funeral, played funeral dirge 
Location Boston 
Citation
IL.783.083
29 Sep 1783:32 (2/282)
. . . [14 lines on a governor's review of the Boston
Regiment of militia]  About 5 o'clock they attended the
funeral of Lieut. Col. Joseph Torry (a valuable officer of
Brigadier General Hazen's regiment) when 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. . .


Generic Title Independent Ledger 
Date 1783.09.29 
Publisher Draper and Folsom 
City, State Boston, MA 
Year 1783 
Bibliography B0018381
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