Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1898 — AN OLD DRUM. [ARTICLE]

AN OLD DRUM.

It Was Carried in the Revolution and Again in 1812. Capt. George Warren has the oldest snare drum in the State. It was carried in the revolutionary war by Daniel Hopkins, of Plainfield, Conn., Col. Parsons’ regiment of Continental troops. Sixth Company, Sixth Regiment, and was carried at the siege of Boston, April and May, 1775. The regiment then inarched under General Washington, to New York, and was at the battle of Long Island, Aug. 27, 1776, and at White Plains, Oct. 28. The drum was also carried on July 7, 1812, by Musician William Hopkins, of Plainfield, in Capt. Archibald Tuckman’s company, at Fort Trumbull, June 7 to July 14, 1812. The shell of this drum was sawed out of a log by hand, and Is in two parts, glued together in the center with chips of wood. . William Hopkins, the last owner, died in Plainfield fifteen years ago, aged 95 years. He was a school teacher, and his uncle, Stephen Hopkins, of Rhode Island, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. William Hopkins also claimed that this drum was carried by his ancestors In the French war in Canada, when Windham County furnished a number of companies. Sergeant Simon Copp, of Killingly; Lieut. Larned, of Woodstock; and Private Plank, of Killingly, who marched under the music of this old drum, lie buried In the old Putnam cemetery, south of Grove street, with about fifty other soldiers of 1776.—Putnam (Conn.) correspondence New York Evening Telegram.