Muster Roll for the 10 Companies of the 34th Regt of Foot in the Service of the United Colonies 1775

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GLC#
GLC09290
Type
Documents
Date
circa 23 April 1775
Title
Muster Roll for the 10 Companies of the 34th Regt of Foot in the Service of the United Colonies 1775
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
2 p. :
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence

2nd Massachusetts regiment. "Muster Roll" for the 10 Companies "of the 34th Reg't of Foot in the Service of the United Colonies 1775" [General John Thomas's 2nd Massachusetts Regiment, organized on April 23, 1775, drawn from members of the original Minutemen companies that responded to the Lexington Alarm.] The names include some of the first African American freemen to join the American cause in this desegregated regiment: Cuff Rezara [Rosary] [of Abington], Andrew Pomp [of Marshfield], and Jupiter Richards, Toby Torbett, Cuff Mitchell, Elias Sewall, and Joel Sugmug [Suikamug] [of Bridgewater].

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