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NYP-F.782.052
14 Nov 1782:22 (290)
On Thursday morning departed this life, at Nelson's Point,
after a lingering illness, Mr. Dominic Trant, an Ensign in
the 9th Massachusetts Regiment, aged 18 years. This amiable
youth quitted his native country (Ireland) and connections
in affluent and reputable circumstances in the city of Cork,
to undergo the fatigues and hardships of a soldier's life in
the service of America. . . [10 lines] On Friday
succeeding, the remains of this worthy youth were conveyed
to the garrison of West-Point, from whence they were
conducted to the grave, in the following manner: preceeding
the bier, a platoon of regular troops from the regiment to
which he belonged, marched in open order, with arms
revers'd,--followed by a band of music, playing a solemn
dirge,--the bier born by six sergeants, and attended by six
officers as pall bearers--and followed by his Excellency
General Washington, Major-General Knox, a respectable number
of military and civil gentlemen, to the place of interment.
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