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PJ.776.019
3 Apr 1776:22 (1739)
Williamsburg, (In Virginia) March 22. . . 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 as 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 fife and drum, will be
gratified with the use of the sprightly and enlivening
barrafoo, an instrument peculiarly adapted ot 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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