Giles Gibbs, Jr.

His Book for the Fife

Ellington, Connecticut

1777

The following tune list is taken from a reprint of Gibbs� fife manuscript, edited by Kate Van Winkle Keller, printed 1974. The original manuscript is in the hands of the Connecticut Historical Society. (Or was, at the time of the 1974 printing.) According to the preface, the order of the following list is the same as the original manuscript.

The preface states that there is evidence that Gibbs served in the Revolutionary War as a fifer between 1777 and 1780. He was captured and killed by a raiding party under British command in Royalton, Vermont in October, 1780.