 He then diverted his company off the road, avoiding the British at Barrett's farm and marching past a tavern belonging to a Widow Brown.A boy named Charles Handley, who lived at Widow Brown's Tavern, saw Davis's company pass the tavern.He recalled many years later that a fifer and drummer played a song called "The White Cockade", a reference to the white ribbon worn on their bonnets by Scots revolutionaries during The '45.