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In the 1785 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue--a vernacular dictionary of the time--the following entry appears: “Brown Bess, a soldier’s firelock”. Credit Line Charles Bremner Hogg Jackson date made 1762 ...

Brown Bess weighed 10 pounds was 60 inches long with a 42- or 46-inch smooth bore barrel and a walnut stock. Soldiers generally carried nine to 12 rounds in a belly cartridge box.

A look at the Revolutionary War era Brown Bess musket and it's role in the Battle of Great Bridge. It's now kept in the Great Bridge Battlefield & Waterways Museum.