Citation - Pennsylvania Evening Post: 1783.10.09

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Index Entry Band of music, in Boston, in procession, for funeral, played funeral dirge 
Location Boston 
Citation
PEP.783.065
9 Oct 1783:2312 (9/1004)
Boston, Sept. 25.  [Report of officers of the Boston
regiment paying respects on various officials]
About five o'clock they attended the funeral of Lieut. Col.
Joseph Torry (a valuable officer of Brig. 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. . . 


Generic Title Pennsylvania Evening Post 
Date 1783.10.09 
Publisher Towne, Benjamin 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1783 
Bibliography B0034698
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