Tower Musket
name: label: manufacturer
content: London Armoury Company
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: British Tower musket, .80 caliber. Marked on the lock plate behind the trigger hammer with "Tower."
label: Description
content: Specific History
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (wood fragments)
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom
label: used
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Firearms
label: related event
content: American Revolution
label: related event
content: Revolution and the New Nation
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.70364M
label: catalog number
content: 70364M
label: accession number
content: 275432
objectType: label: Object Name
content: musket
label: Other Terms
content: musket; Firearms; Flintlock; .80 In; Smooth Bore; Muzzle Load; Sa
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 61 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 156.845 cm x 8.89 cm