STOW'S MINUTEMEN AIM TO PLEASE ON PATRIOTS DAY TOWN RELISHES ROLE IN HISTORY

The Boston Globe | April 14, 2002| | Copyright

STOW - Several years ago, a gun collector in Pennsylvania contacted Stow Minuteman Ralph Bernklow about a musket that he had come upon that he claimed was originally used by Capt. William Whitcomb, who captained the Stow Company during the Revolutionary War.

The two men met and researched the war and gun together at the Randall Public Library.

Indeed, "It was his gun," said Bernklow. They learned that the weapon was made around 1760 in France, but its wood had been replaced with local stock, probably apple wood or another fruitwood. A standard brass plate opposite the lock plate bore the ...

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