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SERVICES OF SOLDIERS. 397 This musket is a fine specimen of the old flint locks, in universal use in those days. On the lock-plate is stamped the English crown, and beneath it the initials G. R., of Georgius Rex, (George the King), while below the hammer is the word "edge," from Edgeworth, England, where the gun was made, and the date, 1760, the year it was made. On a brass plate on the butt appears his name engraved in quaint characters by his own hand, Mx TYLER, and on another plate the following, showing the trans- fer to his grandson, M. T, above the letters H. B. Moses Tyler died in Barrington, Sept. 16, iSii, aged 77 years, and on his grave in the Tyler burying ground has been placed a marker of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, in reverent recognition of his services to his country in "the times that tried mens' souls." Watson, Pomp, (colored.) Enlisted May, 1777, on account of Matthew and John Watson. He was a slave of the Watson family. Enlisted in Capt. Cole's Co., Col. Chris. Greene's Reg., First Bat., R. I. Troops, U. S. service, 1778. Served three years. Watson, Prince, (colored.) Capt. Cole's Co., Col. Chris. Greene's Reg., First Bat., R. I. Troops, U. S. service, 1778. Served during the war.