Help adding the correct Revolutionary War sticker

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I’m new to the stickers, (and WIKItree in general.) I have an ancestor, Kenney-1451,  whose service record in the Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War compilation (1896, Vol. 9) reads:

 Kenny, Jacob, Dartmouth. Private, Capt. Daniel Egery's co. of Minute-men, which marched April 21, 1775, in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 5 days.”

Is there a special Minuteman sticker? 

Any help choosing the appropriate sticker will be appreciated.

Thanks!

WikiTree profile: Jacob Kenney
in WikiTree Help by Christopher Kenney G2G6 (9.3k points)
retagged by Ellen Smith

2 Answers

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Best answer

I spent time over Patriot's Day weekend (April 19) putting stickers on all the Revolutionary soldiers in my data base. I didn't see a specific sticker for Minutemen, but this template seemed to be the easiest to make changes to include specific information. 

{{1776 Sticker

|unit=King's County Regiment, Rhode Island Militia, American Revolution

|rank=Sergeant
}}

Just change the 6 to a 5 in 1776.
After unit= replace from "King's to militia" with your person's info.
After rank= replace "Sergeant" with Minuteman and then rank.
Be sure to do a preview to make sure it looks right.
by Donna Fournier G2G6 Mach 1 (18.8k points)
selected by Christopher Kenney
I wasn’t able to change 1776 to 1775 (apparently there’s just the one 1776 project sticker for the whole war), but everything else worked well.

I think there should be a Minuteman sticker for those early days, since they really weren’t part of what became the Continental Army; at least not yet. Many, like my ancestor, only saw service for a very short time.
I agree there should be a Minuteman sticker. We were all raised to be so proud of the Minutemen and they did serve for a short time. I hadn't actually tried changing the date and thought afterwards that it might be related to the image. I'm new to coding.
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Going to Capt. Egery’s profile, it has this information:

CAPTAIN DANIEL EGERY of Dartmouth was a Lieutenant in Captain Benjamin Terry's Second Dartmouth Company, Colonel Thomas Gilbert's 2nd Bristol County Regiment in July, 1771. Captain Daniel Egery and Nathaniel Pope with twenty-five or thirty men. recaptured two small vessels which had been captured by Captain Linzee in the "Falcon", Sunday, May 14, 1775. On the Lexington alarm of April 19, 1775, he marched as Captain of a Company of Minute Men. May 24, 1775 he was engaged as Captain in Colonel Timothy Danielson's Regiment, and served most of the time through this year in that organization. The records seem to indicate that for a short time in June, he and his company were attached to Colonel David Brewer's Regiment. His later military record has been given in connection with the Colonel Timothy Danielson Regiment.
The Massachusetts Magazine: Devoted to Massachusetts History ..., Volume 10 Google Books
Would I assume him to be part of Colonel Timothy Danielsen’s 2nd Bristol County Regiment, or, again, is there another category for minutemen. I’m seeing both types listed in the category page (although it also says nothing smaller than a regiment, which the minutemen group would be,) but neither of my examples.
by Christopher Kenney G2G6 (9.3k points)

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