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Connecticut Drum 

Five Connecticut regiments encamped at Verplanck’s Point. A drummer from one of those regiments may have used this drum to beat out commands that regulated the soldiers’ days at the encampment. The drum is decorated with the coat of arms of Connecticut surrounded by a panoply of arms. The decoration matches an April 1775 description of drums carried by Connecticut regiments: "We fix on our Standards [flags] and Drums, the Colony Arms, with the motto, 'qui transtulit sustinet,' round it in letters of gold, which we construe thus: 'God, who transplanted us hither, will support us.’” American drummers often carried instruments painted with symbols representing their regiment, state, or the United States.

Drum
Unknown Maker
1781
Wood, Paint, Iron
Museum of Connecticut History

Connecticut Drum

Five Connecticut regiments encamped at Verplanck’s Point. A drummer from one of those regiments may have used this drum to beat out commands that regulated the soldiers’ days at the encampment. The drum is decorated with the coat of arms of Connecticut surrounded by a panoply of arms. The decoration matches an April 1775 description of drums carried by Connecticut regiments: "We fix on our Standards [flags] and Drums, the Colony Arms, with the motto, 'qui transtulit sustinet,' round it in letters of gold, which we construe thus: 'God, who transplanted us hither, will support us.’” American drummers often carried instruments painted with symbols representing their regiment, state, or the United States.

Drum
Unknown Maker
1781
Wood, Paint, Iron
Museum of Connecticut History

Connecticut Drum

Five Connecticut regiments encamped at Verplanck’s Point. A drummer from one of those regiments may have used this drum to beat out commands that regulated the soldiers’ days at the encampment. The drum is decorated with the coat of arms of Connecticut surrounded by a panoply of arms. The decoration matches an April 1775 description of drums carried by Connecticut regiments: "We fix on our Standards [flags] and Drums, the Colony Arms, with the motto, 'qui transtulit sustinet,' round it in letters of gold, which we construe thus: 'God, who transplanted us hither, will support us.’” American drummers often carried instruments painted with symbols representing their regiment, state, or the United States.

Drum
Unknown Maker
1781
Wood, Paint, Iron
Museum of Connecticut History

Connecticut Drum

Five Connecticut regiments encamped at Verplanck’s Point. A drummer from one of those regiments may have used this drum to beat out commands that regulated the soldiers’ days at the encampment. The drum is decorated with the coat of arms of Connecticut surrounded by a panoply of arms. The decoration matches an April 1775 description of drums carried by Connecticut regiments: "We fix on our Standards [flags] and Drums, the Colony Arms, with the motto, 'qui transtulit sustinet,' round it in letters of gold, which we construe thus: 'God, who transplanted us hither, will support us.’” American drummers often carried instruments painted with symbols representing their regiment, state, or the United States.

Drum
Unknown Maker
1781
Wood, Paint, Iron
Museum of Connecticut History