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1750. Deputies, Peter Bicknell, Capt. Benjamin Barton.
1751. Deputies, Capt. John Adams, John Cole. War- ren's proportion of £25,000 bills of credit of colony, £575.
1752. Deputies, Capt. John Adams, John Cole. Two men were fined by the town, each £1 for cursing and swear- ing.
1753. Deputies, Capt. John Adams, Benjamin Miller.
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TOWN DOINGS.
1754. Deputies, James Brown, Capt. Benjamin Barton. Warren's proportion of the tax for public debt of £35,000 was £805.
1755. Deputies, James Brown, Capt. Benjamin Barton. Of the colony tax of £70,000, Warren was levied £1.610.
An act was passed to prevent fishing with seines in the Kickemuit River.
1756. Deputies, Capt. Josiah Humphrey, Capt. Benjamin Barton. Eleven men were demanded from Warren as her quota of four hundred men to aid the Earl of Loudoun in the expedition against Crown Point. Of £53,000 old tenor, levied by the colony, Warren was assessed £1.219 ; Bristol, £1.383.
To this, citizens of Bristol made a protest. "(I.) We look upon the town of Warren to be equal in value to the town of Bristol, and, (2), As it was a tie vote in the lower house and the speaker turned the vote in favor of the town of Warren."
In 1756 the only roads on the east side of the river was one running north and south from Kelley's Ferry to Joll's Gate at the Bristol line, one running east to Kickemuit and three short ways to the river, one of which led to Martin's Ferry. There were then about twenty-five houses in the village proper, whose occupants General Fessenden gives in his brief history of the town of Warren.
1757. Deputies, Thomas Cole, Peter Bicknell. Of £100,- 000, old tenor, levied for colony purposes, Warren was assessed £2,400. Of the colonial tax of £150,000, old tenor, Warren was levied £3,600.
Nathaniel Peck was elected Captain of the Eighth Com- pany in the Regiment ordered by the Assembly.
1758. Deputies, Capt. Josiah Humphrey, Thomas Cole. Recruiting officer to enlist soldiers for Warren, Josiah Hum- phrey.
1759. Deputies, Capt. Thomas Cole and Major Josiah Humphrey. Admitted freemen of Warren by the General Assembly, William Arnold, John Petty, Benjamin Miller,
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Jr., James Miller, Caleb Child, Samuel Kent, John Adams, Jr., and Elisha Phinney.
1760. Deputies, Major Josiah Humphrey, Ebenezer Cole. Bristol Co. field officers, James Humphrey, Warren, Major.
1761. Deputies, John Kinnicutt, Major Josiah Humphrey. Field officers Bristol Co. Reg., Nathan Miller, Warren, Colonel.
Nathaniel Peck was elected Major of Regiment, to be raised for ensuing campaign.
1762. Deputies, James Brown, Ebenezer Cole. Field officer of Bristol Co. Regt., John Adams, Warren, Major.
Peter Bicknell, John Adams and Edward Bosworth were allowed £7 for service or time spent to find a suitable place for a street through the compact part of this town by order of the Town Council.
1763. Deputies, Cromwell Child, Major Nathaniel Peck. Sheriff Bristol Co., John Brown, Warren.
1764. Deputies, Major Nathaniel Peck, Cromwell Child. Bristol Co. field officer, Sylvester Child, Warren, Colonel. Sheriff Bristol Co., John Brown, Warren.
Rev. James Manning opened a preparatory Latin School in Warren, in the summer of 1764.
TOWN RATE. 1764
For West Side of River, (now Barrington).
NAMES.
£ s. d.
NAMES.
£ s. d.
Peter Bicknell
0 17
O
Josiah Kent
O
4 7
David Peck
0
8
I Jonathan Bosworth
0
27
Solomon Peck
I
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6 John Addams
6
9
Solomon Peck, Jun. .
0
9
7
Samuel Adams
30
2
7
Nath'll Peck
O
4
7
Stephen Addams
O
2
7
Simeon Peck
Hooker Low
I
8 II
Samuel Humphrey O
5
7
Daniel Kinnicutt
O
2
7
Samuel Barns
O
4
O
Nathaniel Whitacor
O
2
0
Thomas Barns
O
S
7 Ethamer Healy
O
2
0
Levi Barns
o
3
7
Hezekiah Tiffany
3
6
Constant Voyall (Viall) 5 0 9 John R. Richmond
o
5
9
James Voyall .
3 John Tripp
o
2 0
Joseph Voyall
O
4
7 W'd Abigail Bullock
0 10
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TOWN TAXES.
NAMES.
£ s. d.
NAMES.
£. s. d.
Josiah Humphrey
14
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Nathaniel Toogood .
0
3 I
Elkanah Humphrey
0
3
4
W'd Elezebeth Toogood
0
I I
W'd Ruth Allen .
0 15
6 James Brown, Ju'r
0
2 10
Joseph Voyall, Jun.
0
2
3 Jonathan Voyall .
0
4
3
Thomas Allin
I
8
6
Richard Harding
0
3
7
Matthew Allin
I
7
II
Mary Bullock .
0
I
4
Enoch Reminton
O
5
4
W'd Mary Munro
O
5
2
Nath'll Humphrey
O
5
4
I
Samuel Bosworth
0
2 10
Nicholos Lydue O
2
6
John Jones
0
3
O
William Andres O
2
O
Charles Bears
O
2
O
Richard Dring
o
2
O
John Kelley
0 15
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Samuel Allen, 2'd
O
7
2
James Bowen .
0 10 3
Constant Luther 0
2
O
Ebenezer Garnsey
0
5
I
Oliver Luther 0 2
O
Joseph Allen .
0
7
2
Joshua Bicknell
I
7
6 Joseph Allen, Jun.
0
4
7
Ephraim Tiffany
0 19
7 Joseph Grant .
O II
3 8
James Bicknell 0
5
2
Joseph Grant, Jun.
0
2
2
O
Matthew Watson 3
8
2
John Martin
0 I9
7
Matthew Watson, Jun. 0
3
9
John Short
0 IO
4
James Brown
I
7
IO
Benjamin Drown
0
7
8
John Willson Low 0 15
2
Solomon Drown Samuel Kent .
O
2
3
James Smith
I II II
Ebenezer Addams
0 19
7
Elisha Luther
0
5
8
James Addams
0
3
7
0 17
7
William Brown
0
3
2
Moses Horton
O
4
0
Edward Bosworth
0 16 4
Daniel Peck
0
3
I
17 II 9
John Luther, 2d, 0
Jeremiah Pearse .
5
0
Christian Phippin 0
I
6
Part of the Town Rate for the Town of Warren To Be Collected by Samuel Allen, Collector : Mad the 27th Day of November, A. D. : 1765.
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17 II 9 Subscribers) Thomas Allin,) Rate Jn'o Brown ) makers.
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Bristol Co. field officer, Sylvester Child, Warren, Colonel. Sheriff, Bristol Co., John Brown, Warren.
Rev. James Manning opened a preparatory Latin School in Warren in the summer of 1764.
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Moses Tyler
0
12
4
Ébenezer Martin
0
14
6
W'd Hannah Smith 0
3
2
Shuball Grant
O
2 Barsheba Peck
O
I
2
Samuel Allen
I
4
6
8
Nathaniel Martin
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1765. Deputies, Major Nathaniel Peck, James Mason.
Bristol Co. field officers, Caleb Carr, Lieut. Col. Samuel Allen, Warren, Major.
Rev. James Manning's Latin School of 1764 was organized into a College in September, 1765, when Mr. Manning was ·elected its President, and was its only teacher till 1766.
Joshua Bicknell of Warren and others protest against rais- ing a tax of £12,468, on grounds of oppression and unjust taxation.
1766. Deputies, Joshua Bicknell, James Mason.
Bristol Co. field officers, Caleb Carr, Lieut. Col. Samuel Allen, Warren, Major.
David Howell was appointed a tutor and assistant to Prest. Manning, in Rhode Island College at Warren.
Allethea Eastabrooke was allowed £5 for an apron for Priscilla Devotion.
1767. Deputies Cromwell Child. Thomas Allin.
Bristol Co. field officer, Joshua Bicknell, Warren, Lieut. Col.
Warren Baptist Association organized at Warren.
The following request was made and granted : "We the Inhabitants on the west side of the river in Warren Com- monly called Phebe& neck Request that this meeting pass the following vote or act (viz) that every householder shall have liberty to turn out one Creture of neat kind and no more on the Commons or highways, And that every sd householder shall deliver the mark of their creture to the field driver or drivers on said neck and all ye cretures whose marks are not given in to the field drivers shall be impounded and the owner thereof shall forfeit and pay to the driver one shilling Lawfull money pr. head and all charge arising lawfully from such poundage and that no person shall turn out more than one Creture except he or she purchase two rights for every cre- ture so turned out."
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TOWN VALUATION.
Warren, acres of woodland, 616. Value of Woodland, £1.580. Rents at 20 and 15 years, £33,196, Ios. Sum total of Ratables, £798, 12s. 3p. Whole amount, £42,275, 2s. 3p. Polls, 226.
1768. Deputies, Major Josiah Humphrey, Major Samuel Allen.
Bristol Co. field officer, Samuel Allen, Warren, Lieut. Col.
1769. Deputies, Cromwell Child, Major Samuel Allen.
Bristol Co. field officer, Samuel Allen, 2nd, Warren, Lieut. Col.
April 19th, 1769. A pair of stocks was ordered on the East side of the River, and a pillory on the West side, in a convenient place.
The first commencement of Rhode Island College was held in the Baptist Meeting House in Warren, September 7, 1769, when seven young men, matriculated in 1765, took their first degree in the Arts.
Dr. Manning and the candidates for degrees were all dressed in American manufacturies.
1770. Deputies, Ebenezer Cole, Major Samuel Allen.
This was the twenty-fourth and last annual election for town and state officers of the town of Warren as originally organized.
In the election of deputies the plan had been followed of electing one of the two deputies from each side of the river, excepting for the year 1768, when both deputies were elected from the west or Barrington side of the river.
Bristol Co. field officer, Nathaniel Martin, Warren, Lieut. Col.
Before the division of the town the average vote of the freemen for seven years was 96, and for the seven years after it was 46.
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BARRINGTON RESTORED IN 1770
Reasons for Separation - Spirit of Compromise - Proposals Rejected - Agreement of People on Barrington Necks - Petitions to General Assembly - Act of Incorporation - Bills of Committee - Appeals of No Avail.
P EACE and general prosperity attended the people of Warren from the date of the incorporation, in 1747. Wealth and population had increased, the social and busi- ness relations of the people were very harmonious, but divisions arose mainly on political grounds. Physically, the town was made up of three distinct peninsulars, New Meadow Neck, Peebee's Neck, and Warren Neck, each separated from the other by deep rivers and united in com- munication only by three ferries, which were unreliable in severe storms and in icy weather. It was somewhat to be expected that the people on New Meadow Neck, who had enjoyed the "centre of trade" from the first, should be jealous of the growth of the village on the east side of the river. But claims of unequal taxation and an unfair distri- bution of offices to the three divisions of the town are made the subjects of complaint by the citizens of the two western Necks. The village of Warren had the advantage of com- pactness and united influence in securing town offices and legislation, and the people west of the Great River were quick to note all real or fancied discrimination against them. Differences of religious faith had a real, though not a declared relation to the growing sentiment of separation. In the sixties, matters grew worse and discussion did not unite, but widened the breach between the east and west sides.
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COMPROMISE SPIRIT.
The leading citizens of all parts of the town seem to have acted as wisely and generously as men are accustomed to do under such diverse conditions and circumstances, and in 1768, the spirit of compromise or of resistance was so strong, that both deputies, Messrs. Allen and Humphrey, were resi- dents of the west peninsula. In 1769 leading citizens of both parts of the town took action for and against separa- tion. The village of Warren sent the following olive branch of peace across the troubled waters of the Great River, to their brethren on the western shore :
WARREN, November 6th, 1769.
" We whose names are hereunder written, freemen of the town of Warren, being desirous for the future to live in peace and mutual fellowship with our townsmen on the west side of the Great River, and all others, do agree and promise for ourselves and all others we can persuade to come into the same mutual agreement, that the freemen on the west side of the Great River do nominate their proportion of officers in the town meetings, (provided they are agreed in such nomination,) they allowing us the same privilege, and we will use our endeavors to carry the same into prosecution, each using the other with mutual friendship and freedom.
Signed :
Sylvester Child, Wm. T. Miller, Martin Luther,
Shubael Burr, John Child,
Ezra Ormsbee,
William Easterbrooks,
Ebenezer Cole."
All appeals for continued union to the people of old Bar- rington seem to be of no avail, and to them the endurance of great disabilities has ceased to be a virtue. The older citizens remember the independence of the Barrington of 1717 to 1747, while the younger are ambitious to enjoy the more favorable conditions and honors of a separate corporate life. Petitions were circulated for a division of the town of Warren into two towns.
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While this petition was in circulation, leading townsmen of New Meadow and Peebee's Neck signed an agreement as follows :
WARREN, April ye 26, A. D. 1770.
"KNow all men by these presents that the subscribers Freemen of that part of Warren formerly called Barrington Being Desirous to live in pease with all men as much as in us lies and more Especially with each other Do Covenant Promise and Engage Faithfully by these Presents upon Honnor Strictly to adhere to the foloing agreement that is to say that the freemen in that part of Warren called New Meadow Shall Ejoy all the Privileges that they on the West side of the River Does as hereafter mentioned viz. that the sd freemen shall from time to time and at all times Have one third part of the offices in sd town at thar disposal on Nomination & the freemen on Phebe's Neck two thirds of sd offices and the freemen to have one third of the town meetings and town Councils on their side of the River and the latter two thirds : And in case the town of Warren is divided according to petition, the above Agree- ment shall stand firm and binding forever as witness our hands.
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Thomas Allin, Joshua Bicknell, Viall Allen,
Michal Cary, Samuel Allin, 2d., John Short.
Josiah Viall,
John Wilson Low,
Consider Tripp,
Nathaniel Humphrey,
Thomas Barns,
Samuel Kent,
Joseph Grant,
Ebenezer Garnsey,
N. B. This agreement was written without the author considering the Proportion one Neck bore to the other, he
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supposing New Meadow Neck to contain one third as many Freemen as the other Neck Did. But upon Consideration & Computation it Contains but a quarter of the freemen & 14 of the Poles and Pays But one fifth part of the tax."
The general petition was presented to the General Assem- bly at its May session at Newport by Major Samuel Allen, one of the deputies, was received and referred to the June session in Providence, and the inhabitants of Warren were served with a copy. The prayers and arguments of the petitioners represented by Josiah Humphrey, James Brown and Samuel Allen, satisfy the Assembly that there are good and sufficient reasons for the division, notwithstanding the remonstrance of the Eastern village and some of the people on New Meadow Neck, and on the 16th June, 1770, the following record appears among the acts of the General Assembly at Newport :
" WHEREAS, many of the inhabitants of the Town of War- ren preferred a petition and represented unto this Assembly, that they labor under great and inconceivable Difficulties in transacting and negotiating the prudential affairs of said Town, by Reason of a River which runneth through the middle of it, which they are obliged to pass over all Days of Public Meetings and Town Councils; for which, with other reasons, they prayed this Assembly to divide the said Town into Two distinct Parts, according to the Training List, that is to say ; that the westerly Part of the Town of Warren, which was formerly called Barrington, may be set off and incorporated into a Township, to be distinguished and known by the name of Barrington ; and that the Inhabitants thereof may, from Time to Time, have and enjoy the like Liberties, Benefits, Privileges and Immunities, with the other towns in this Colony, according to our Royal Charter.
On consideration whereof
It is Voted and Resolved, That the said Petition be, and the same is hereby granted. June 16, 1770.
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ACT INCORPORATING THE TOWN OF BARRINGTON.
An Act for Incorporating the West Part of the Town of Warren Into a Township to be Distinguished and known by the Name of Barrington.
" Be it enacted by this General Assembly and by the au- thority thereof : It is enacted that the Town of Warren be and the same is hereby divided into two distinct and sepa- rate towns, that the bounds between them be as the river between Bristol and Rumstick extends itself northerly to Myles Bridge, that all the lands on the westerly side of the said river be and they are hereby erected and made into a Township to be distinguished, called and known by the name of Barrington, and that the inhabitants thereof shall choose two deputies to represent them in the General Assembly, and shall have, hold and enjoy all and singular the liberties, privileges and immunities which the other towns in this Colony have, enjoy and are entitled to.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all debts due and money belonging to the Town of Warren before the division thereof by this Act made shall be divided according to the last tax, that all debts due from the said Town before the division shall be settled and made in the same manner, and that the poor of the said Town be divided between the said two Towns in proportion to their taxes and debts.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all and every of the Justices of the Peace and Military Offi- cers who were chosen and appointed for the Town of War- ren and live in that part thereof which is now Barrington be and they are hereby continued in their respective offices with as full power and ample authority in every particular as they had in consequence of their being chosen into and commissionated for the offices by them respectively sus- tained, and that James Brown, Esq., be and he is hereby authorized and fully empowered to issue a warrant and call the Freemen of the Town of Barrington to meet together at such time and place within said Town as he shall think fit
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ACT OF INCORPORATION.
on or before the 8th day of July next in order to choose and appoint all officers necessary for managing and conducting the prudential affairs of said Town agreeably to the laws of this Colony.
And be it further enacted by the authority that the said Town of Barrington shall send three grand and two petit jurors to each of the Superior and Inferior Courts which shall be holden in the County of Bristol, and that the Town of Warren shall send three grand and four petit jurors to each of the said Courts.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that Nathaniel Fales, Thomas Throop and Daniel Bradford, Esqs., all of Bristol, be and they are appointed a committee to settle and proportion the debts and poor of said Town, agree- ably to the last tax of said town.
God Save the King.
Rhode Island Colonial Records, Vol. VII., pages 15, 16, 17."
The only evidences of junkets, bribes, and other essentials of modern legislation in the acts of the Committee in secur- ing the division of the town, appear in the following bills of the Committee :
BARRINGTON, July 11, 1770.
The Town of Barrington,
To James Brown, DR.
. To my expense at Newport when the town was divided :
To my time 5 days £1, IOS. 2p. To Cash paid Esq. Kinnicutt for the estimate 5s.
To one day when we met the Committee at Martin's 9s. To part of two days as a Committee to settle the town's proportions . 3S.
To one day and a half going to Bristol to settle Pat Monroe .
5s.
To three times going to Providence 2S.
£2, 14s. 2p.
Less 6s.
£2,8s. 2p.
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Received the contents of within account of Henry Bowen, Collector.
Per me, JAMES BROWN.
1771, Apr. 17.
To Josiah Humphrey, DR.
To my expenses at Newport in getting the Town divided £0, 13s. op.
To my time and expence in selling the poor with the Committy appointed by the
General Assembly, and to selling Pat. Munro . £1, 15s. 6p.
Total £2, IOS. 6p.
Per me, JOSIAH HUMPHREY.
March 14, 1771.
To my expence at Newport in getting the
Town divided
£o, 19s. op.
March 14, 1771. Per me, SAMLL ALLEN.
In order that the people of the two Necks of Barrington might be satisfied as to the division of the offices of the town, the following plan was drawn up by a committee and adopted. This agreement, as will be seen, grew out of a discontent on the part of some citizens of New Meadow Neck, who preferred to remain in Warren, or to be set off to that town.
BARRINGTON, April ye A. D. 1771.
" WHEREAS thare has been some misunderstanding between The two Necks in Barrington viz, Phebeys Neck & New Meddow Neck so called to the Prejudice of the said Town of Barrington and we the Subscribers Being Apointed a Com- mitty by said town To Draw up Articles of agreement Between sd Necks In order to Establish Lasting Peace and union in sd. Town Accordingly we Have Considered the Number of Freemen on both Necks and find New Meddow
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Neck to Contain Almost one Quarter as many as the Other Neck Does, Therefore we Propose the following Proportion viz : That the April Meeting be forever Held at the Meet- ing House on Pheebes Neck being Near the Senter of sd Town for Convenence of boath sides and the other town Meetings to be Held one Quarter on New Meddow Neck and three Quarters on Phebeys Neck ; & the town councils in the like Propotion at the most Convenient Places on said Necks as the town Council Shall think fit, New meddow Neck to have one Quarter of the Town Offices at thair De- posal or Nomination to be divided In the following manner viz, two Councillmen and one assessor of rates and such other town officers as shall be Needful on sd Neck, And Phebeys Neck to have four councillmen and the town Clarke, Town Treasurer & town Sargent and two Assessors of Rates and Such other town officers as shall be Needfull on that side of the River And So in the Same proportion to Enjoy all the Rites & Privileges of sd town as they at Pres- ant Enjoy And in Case thay on the East Side of the River will be Content to Remain undivided as thay now are this Agreement Remain in full Forse and Binding forever."
A month later the following petition was presented to the General Assembly, at its session at Newport, referred to the next session, and notice served on the town of Barrington :
"To the Honble General Assembly of the Colony of Rhode Island to Sit in Newport.
"In and for the County of Newport on the first Wednes- day in May, A. D. 1771.
" The Petition of the Freeholders & Inhabitants of New- meadow Neck which was formerly Part of Warren, but lately taken into Barrington, Humbly Sheweth That Whereas your Petitioners Labour under many & Great Inconvences in Transacting the Prudential Affairs of the Town, By Reason of a River which Divides us from Phebes Neck which River must be Passed to Transact all Publick Business of the Town, and it is with the Greatest Difficulty the Said River is Passed, As there is no Ferry, and at the Best Place to Pass
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the Banks of the River are so very flat that it is Very Diffi- cult Passing at all Times But just at High water in the Sum- mer Season and In the Winter Season the Current Running Rapid in the Middle and at the Sides Being Still water The Ice freezeth on the Sides of the River While the Middle Be- ing Left open makes it almost at that Season Which with many other Inconveniences Render our Present Circum- stances Truly Deplorable. We therefore Most Earnestly Desire that this Honorable House would take Our Present unhappy Circumstances into their Wise Consideration and Set us off to Warren as We Were Before as there is a narrow and conveanent ferry to Pass that way Where the People are of the same Denomination in Religion as we are and we Therefore the more Cheerfully Expect our Prayer To be Granted When we Recollect that the People of Phebes Neck Promised When this Honorable House Was Passed to Incor- porate us with Barrington that they were free and Willing We might be Set off to Warren Whenever We Petitioned therefor and your Petitioners Ever Pray. Barrington April ye 10th 1771.
" John Kelley, Ebenezer Garnsey, James Bowen, John Martin, Benj. Drown, Jr., Joseph Grant, Jr., Samuel Kent, Joseph Grant, Shubael Grant, Thomas Grant, Benj. Drown, John Short, Ebenezer Martin, Moses Horton, Spicer Hewes, Jeremiah Bowen, Simeon Horton, Benj. Horton."
After hearing both parties, the Assembly gave the peti- tioners leave to withdraw, and henceforth they and their descendants have been among the most loyal and faithful citizens of Barrington.
CHAPTER XXII
TOWN CENSUS AND VALUATION
Population in 1774 - Valuation in 1793.
A T the date of the incorporation of Barrington in 1717, there were about fifty families in the town, numbering at least three hundred people. We have no census of that period and are therefore without exact data. The first com- plete colonial census of Rhode Island was made in the year 1774, and Thomas Allin was appointed to make the enrol- ment of the town. This census was made by families, giv- ing only the names of heads of families, males and females under sixteen, males and females over sixteen, whites, Indians, blacks, and the total of each family. There were then 91 families, a total population of 610, and an average of 6.6 persons to each family. We give the full record of this enumeration of Barrington, preserving the spelling of family names as recorded by Mr. Allin :
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