JOLLY, JABEZ
> MILITARY DRUMMER
JOLLY, JABEZ. Military drummer (fl. late eighteenth century). He enlisted on 15 May 1777 in Captain John Russell's Company, Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment, and served as a drummer during the War of the American Revolution. BIBL: GreBD. Benjamin Quarles, The Negro in the American Revolution (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1961), p. 77.