Annotation:Winter Hill Troop
X:1 T:Winter Hill Troop, or Gramachree Molly M:C| L:1/8 S:Thomas Nixon Jr./Joseph Long music copybook (c. 1776- 1778, p. 22) N:Nixon (1762-1842) was a 13 yr. old from Framingham, Ct., who accompanied his father N:to the opening conflicts of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord, N:and who served as a fifer in the army until 1780. K:G D2|G>A G>F B>cd>B|A>FE>F D2 AB/c/|d>cd>e d>cB>A|B>Ad>F A2:| |:AB/c/|d>cd>e d>cB>A|.B>.A .G>.F B4 {Bcd}|d>cB>A B>cd>B|A>FE>F D2:|]
WINTER HILL TROOP. AKA and see "Gramachree Molly." English, Irish, American; Air (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Winter Hill Troop" was entered into the music manuscript collection belonging to American War of Independence musician Thomas Nixon, Jr., of Framingham, Connecticut. Nixon was a 13 year old fife player who saw service during the first years of the war. The tune, however, is "Gramachree Molly," an Irish air employed as a military troop march (another American musician of the era, John Greewood, had it in his manuscript under the "Gramachree Molly" title).
