antedating banjo (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

OED has 1764

1749-07-13; _Pennsylvania Gazette_ p 3 col 1 [Newsbank Early American
Newspapers]

"Runaway, some months ago, from Capt. Thomas Prather, of Prince George's
county, Maryland, a Negroe man, named Scipio, is of short stature, plays
on the Banjo, and can sing."
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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