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I'm wondering about evidence if British response to provincial martial music on 19 Apr 1775. That might appear in British accounts if the day, and conceivably in contemporaneous provincial accounts of conversations with British prisoners. But American newspaper stories about what their musicians played don't tell us how the British forces reacted to their tunes, only how the provincials hoped the British had reacted.
One famous anecdote about Col. Percy and "Chevy Chase" gained new, improved details as the Rev. William Gordon repeated it, leading me to suspect it was more about provincials having a laugh together than an accurate rendition of an exchange between a British earl and a Roxbury boy.
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