LEW, BARZILLAI

LEW, BARZILLAI (ZELAH or ZEAL). Military fifer and drummer (5 November 1743 in Groton, Massachusetts; 19 January 1821 in Dracut, Massachusetts). His father, Priamus (or Primus), was a musician in the French and Indian War of 1745. Barzillai was active as a fifer in the French and Indian War of 1761, serving in Thomas Farrington's Company of Groton, Massachusetts. He also was a fifer in 1775 at the Battle of Bunker Hill as a member of Captain John Ford's...