"Mass. Provincial Congress Coats?" Topic
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79thPA  | 29 Jul 2019 6:58 a.m. PST |
I see that Brigade has released militia in Massachusetts Provincial Congress coats (nice looking figures, by the way). I have had several AWI armies over the years in various scales, and I can't say that I have ever heard of the MPC coat before or, for that matter, have any idea what separates it from any other coat. Are these figures strictly for early war Mass. militia? Was the cut of the coat copied by other colonies? Does it really matter all that much? |
 Old Contemptible | 29 Jul 2019 7:57 a.m. PST |
Perhaps something like this: [REFERENCES: Journals, Provincial Congress of Massachusetts (Boston, 1838), 456, for resolution of July 5, 1775; (Boston) Independent Chronicle, July 3, 1777. A piece of fawn-colored cloth, sent out to the towns as the standard of color and quality for the coats ordered by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in July, 1775, is preserved in the Boston Public Library, attached to a broadside which is pictured in Bolton's The Private Soldier under Washington.] link Don't have my books with me. |
| 79thPA | 30 Jul 2019 11:50 a.m. PST |
Thanks. I have seen that pic. |
| epturner | 05 Aug 2019 5:34 p.m. PST |
It's simple. It's brown. It looks like something your Gram would have sewn for you, if your Gram knew anything about the King's Warrant… Depends on how uncomfortable you want Elisha to be when he sees what Gram made for him… Eric |
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