Object Details
- manufacturer
- London Armoury Company
- Description
- Physical Description
- British Tower musket, .80 caliber. Marked on the lock plate behind the trigger hammer with "Tower."
- Specific History
- Private Rowel Colby saw service at the battle of Bennington, and took this Tower flint-lock musket from a dead British soldier during the battle on August 16, 1777. Colby of Salisbury, New Hampshire was on the muster rolls of Captain Ebenezer Webster's company in Colonel Thomas Stickney's regiment in General Stark's brigade raised out of the regiment of the New Hampshire Militia, July 1777. This unit later joined the northern Continental army at Bennington.
- Location
- Currently not on view (wood fragments)
- ID Number
- AF.70364M
- catalog number
- 70364M
- accession number
- 275432
- Object Name
- musket
- Other Terms
- musket; Firearms; Flintlock; .80 In; Smooth Bore; Muzzle Load; Sa
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 61 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 156.845 cm x 8.89 cm
- place made
- United Kingdom
- used
- United States
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- Exhibition
- Price of Freedom
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Firearms
- related event
- American Revolution
- Revolution and the New Nation
- Record ID
- nmah_416114
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-15eb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
