Grade Range: K-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, ArtifactsDate Posted: 12/30/2009
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.
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Congress was finding it difficult to arm its soldiers after Lexington and Concord. By 1778, there...
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