Annotation:Pilgrim (3) (The) a Troop

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PILGRIM [3], THE, A TROOP. AKA - "Pilgrims Blithe & Jolly, a Troop (The)." English (?), American; March (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The march appears in two musicians' manuscript collections of the American War of Independence, Thomas Nixon Jr. and Aaron Thompson. Nixon was a 13 yr. old who accompanied his father in answer to the call for militia to counter the British incursions at Lexington and Concord, Mass. He remained with the Continental Army for several years as a fifer, and, in 1780 when the war shifted to the southern colonies, he returned to his home in Framingham, Connecticut. Aaron Thompson was a New Jersey fifer who compiled a commonplace book of tunes from 1777-1782.

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