BROWN, SCIPIO
(1757–1834)> MILITARY DRUMMER
BROWN, SCIPIO. Military drummer (c1757 in Rhode Island; 16 February 1834 in Rhode Island). He enlisted on 1 May 1778 in Colonel Christopher Greene's and Jeremiah Olney's black Rhode Island Regiment and served as a drummer during the War of the American Revolution. BIBL: GreBD. MnBAF. Lorenzo Greene, Some Observations on the Black Regiment of Rhode Island in the American Revolution in Journal of Negro History 37 (April 1952).