Citation - Massachusetts Spy-Worcester: 1783.10.02

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Index Entry Band of music, in Boston, in procession, for funeral, played funeral dirge 
Location Boston 
Citation
MS-W.783.035
2 Oct 1783:42 (649)
Boston, September 25 . . . [16 lines on a governor's review
of the Boston Regiment of militia] 
About five o'clock they attended the funeral of Lieutenant-
Colonel Joseph Torry (a valuable officer of Brigadier-
General Hazen's regiment) when Major Davis's Corps of
Artillery marched in funeral order, there proceeded the
officers of the Boston Regiment, after them the officers of
the Continental Army, the band playing a funeral dirge.


Generic Title Massachusetts Spy-Worcester 
Date 1783.10.02 
Publisher Thomas, Isaiah 
City, State Worcester, MA 
Year 1783 
Bibliography B0022091
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