Citation - Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia: 1779.08.19

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Index Entry Band of music, in Wyoming, in procession for burial 
Location Wyoming 
Citation
PP-P.779.096
19 Aug 1779:31
Wyoming, July 31, 1779.  On Thursday last, the 28th inst.
agreeable to previous determination, the bodies of our
brethren Capt. Joseph Davis and Lieut. William Jones, who
were massacred by savages near this post on the 23d of April
last, were re-interred.
. . . The form of procession being fixed upon at Lodge No.
19, was as follows:
. . . 3.  A band of music.
. . . 14. Two corps of drums muffled, and fifes playing a
solemn dirge.
. . . [19 more lines]


Generic Title Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia 
Date 1779.08.19 
Publisher Dunlap, John 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1779 
Bibliography B0040474
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