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THOMAS ALLIN, Left Senior Class.
To SERGT. JOSEPH VIALL :
N. B. Give my Complyments to them and tell them it is Needless to Bring their Arms as they will have no Need of them at Present. THOMAS ALLIN.
Mr. Josiah Viall, Moses Tyler, Esqr,
Mr. Samuel Kent,
Mr. James Martin, First Four for one Month March 1781, Mr. Joseph Moran,
Mr. Luther Martin,
Mr. Samuel Bosworth,
Mr. Hezekiah Child,
Paul Mumford, Esqr.,
Samuel Allen, Second Four one Month June A. D. 1781, Solomon Townsend, Esqr.,
Mr. Henry Bowen,
Mr. William Brown,
Mr. Nathaniel Heth,
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GEN. THOMAS ALLIN RESIDENCE, DROWNVILLE.
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Mr. Consider Tripp,
Elknah Humphrey, Esqr., First Four for one Month March, Matthew Watson, Esqr., First Four for one Month March. Mr. James Brown,
Mr. Matthew Allin,
Mr. Richard Harding.
S O'CLOCK TUESDAY EVENING, WARREN, Sept. 17, 1782. To CAPT. THOMAS ALLIN, Barrington,
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I have it in Orders from his Honnour the Dep- uty Governor Bowen to have the whole of my Brigade ready to march at the shortest notice as the Enemy are Expected to make a landing within the State. You will therefore as the Commanding officer of the Senior Class now present warn the men of that class accordingly.
NATHAN MILLER, B. Gen.
TUESDAY, 12 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, Sept. 17, 1782. TO CAPT. THOMAS ALLIN,
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Since writing the above I have received by Ex- press from Governor Bowen a Letter, urging the necessity of being ready ; that the Enemy were at Huntington on Sunday Night with a large fleet, and that two large ships had come round Montauk Point and gone up the Sound to meet them ; that from intelegence from Long Island, Rhode Island was their first Object; therefore hope no exertions will be wanting on your part.
I am your Humble Servt., NATHAN MILLER, B. Gen.
Arms and blankets of Barrington soldiers destroyed by the enemy at Bristol, 25th May, 1778, Capt. Allin's Co., Col. Crary's Regt. : 2 guns, 3 bayonets, I drum, 26 blank- ets, 6 coats, 5 jackets, 6 breeches, 7 hats, 12 shirts, 12 hose, II prs shoes, I knapsack, 6 canteens, one axe, 5 pails, 5 bowls, I pot, one shovel, and one orderly book.
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An old orderly book of Colonel William Richmond's Regi- ment gives interesting facts as to Barrington in the Revolu- tion. The first sixty-four pages are gone. The first record is dated June 10, 1776, at headquarters ; it does not say where. On August 1, 1776, headquarters are at Newport. On October 15th, at New London, on October 25th, at New Haven. The last record of Colonel Richmond's Regiment is at New Haven, October 28, 1776. The records consist of orders for drills, reviews, guard duty, etc. The records of courts martial are given also. On July 20th, a salute was fired in honor of American Independence, having just received the news. A report was circulated through the Regiment that Adjutant Hill had stolen a " Sute of Green Clothes " from a Mr. Dudley. The Adjutant, however, was innocent and suffered damage to his reputation by this report. Information is also given about the building of fortifications on the Island of Rhode Island, viz. : - at " Bristol feary, Howland's feary, Fort Liberty and Brinton's Neck."
The book now appears to be the record of Colonel Nathaniel Martin's Regiment, which is by far the most inter- esting to us. The first record is dated at Barrington head- quarters, December 3, 1776. (Whether Colonel Martin succeeded Colonel Richmond, does not appear.) The fol- lowing entries relate to military orders for Barrington :
COLL. MARTIN'S QUARTERS, BRISTOL, January ye 20, 1777.
Coll Martins Orders.
" Ensign Martin, your orders are to take ye men Be- longing to ye Alarm and Millitia List of ye first Division Belonging to Barrington this Day & March them to sd Bar- rington and take up Quarters ye one half at Nath'l Smiths ye other Half at James Browns Esq. in order to Keep A Guard at Each Watch House, ye officers and Privets Equel at Each House and Keep A Guard According to ye Number
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Of men Under your Command and that Lieut. Kinnicutt and his men and ye Alaram men are Excused from ve Guard, and these to replace them. Your orders Are to Keep Guard Night and Day, your further orders are to Make A Weackly Return of ye State of your Company To my Quarters In Bristol And to Draw Provisions to Mr. Nathan Miller's Comesary.
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Headquarters are removed again to Barrington, April 6th, 1777.
" BARRINGTON HEAD QUARTERS April ye 6, 1777.
Coll Natha'l Martin's Regt ordered to march to Bristol and to Barrington in order to Relieve the Third Division, to Keepe as Good a gard as possible with So fue men."
" BARRINGTON HEAD QUARTERS April ye 7, 1777.
Marcht to Bristl and But a fue men appeared and Returned Home and went to Nayet and Rumstick and Sot the gards."
" BARRINGTON HEAD QUARTERS April ye 8, 1777.
Nothing Remarcable gards as pr order at Bristol and at Barrington as yushel "
" BARRINGTON HEAD QUARTERS April ye 9, 1777.
Gards as pr order and But a fue men appeared to Bristol and my orders was from the Genneral asembly and Coun- cel of War to Call the Regt together and to send Second part of the First Division to Bristol and send them forred and to See that the Regt is equipt with Eavry aCutement aCording to Law in order to march at a moments warning."
" BARRINGTON HEAD QUARTERS April ye 10, 1777.
Incine Martin, your orders are to march your Company from Bristol to Mr. Peter Churches and there to gard the West Shore from mr Pecks Rocks down to the mill gutt
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and to Keepe as good watch as possible Can be Keept with so fue men and to Releve the Watch Every tow hours."
" BARRINGTON HEAD QUARTERS April ye 11, 1777.
Lieut Smith Bowin your orders are to set the watch Between sunset and dark to your several places on the West shore and to Releve them Every tow Hours. Lieut. Bowin and Lieut. Bicknel, your orders are to take down the names when they come to do duty and to keepe gards by yr orders and see that Every one duse his duty and see that the houses that you are Station in are Left in as Good order as when you Came into them and yous the peple with good Land- widg And to find the Several alarm-poasts for the sevrel Companys for Bristol Company's the Corthouse ; for Worrin Company, Ebenezer Coles house ; for Barrington Company, Natha'l Martins House in Barrington."
" BARRINGTON HEAD QUARTERS April ye 12, 1777.
Coll martins Regementle orders that no Officer or Solder Be absent from Quarters He belongs to Nor go more than Haf a mile from his Quarters without Leaf from thear officers gards as yoshal."
" BARRINGTON HEADQUARTERS, April 13, 1777.
Coll Martins Regementle orders. That it is Expected the Evry officer and Solder that is not on duty it Being the Sabath Will atend Publick Worship. Gards as usial."
" BARRINGTON HEAD QUARTERS, April 14, 1777.
Coll. Martins Regementle orders that the Camps turn out persisely at 8, of the Clok in the fore noon and call over the Rolls."
The last record in the book, dated April 15, 1777, reports, " Nothing Remercable gards as usial."
COLONIAL AND TOWN LEGISLATION DURING THE REVOLUTION.
The frequent sessions of the General Assembly gave ample opportunity for that body to act promptly and energetically
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in behalf of and the needs of the patriots at home and at the front. The towns were in close and constant touch with one another, and the Colony was in close fellowship with the sis- ter colonies. As a rule Barrington was prompt in answering the call for men, blankets, clothing, and such other material aid as she was called upon to render or voluntarily perform. So thorough was her enlistment of men that tradition has it that, at one time, every able bodied man in town was in some form of military service, leaving the direction of affairs and the work of the farms to the men over sixty, the women, and the boys under sixteen. After the first conflicts with the British, at Lexington and Funker Hill, we are assured that our townspeople were up and in arms, ready for any call to duty.
The Town and the General Assembly.
In 1774 Mr. Nathaniel Martin and Mr. Thomas Allin rep- resented the town in the General Assembly, and were re-el- ected in 1775. In June, 1775, Captain Thomas Allin was directed and empowered by the General Assembly "to go to the house of each person in town and take an account of the powder, arms, and ammunition," and to make report to the Assembly at the next session. The same committee man was also instructed to collect all the saltpetre and brimstone in the town and send it with all possible dispatch to the town of Providence, to be sent forward finally to the Continental Congress at New York.
Mr. Luther Martin was appointed to enlist one quarter part of the militia at Barrington, as minute men, "to meet to- gether and exercise themselves in military discipline, half-a- day, once in every fortnight." At the same session Viall Allen was made lieutenant, and Daniel Kinnicutt ensign of the Company of militia, under Captain Thomas Allin.
1776.
In January Barrington was ordered to raise an Artillery Company of fourteen men, the Company to meet half-a-day a
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week to practise with cannon, and the men to be allowed one shilling for the half day's work, the company to have two, three or four pound field pieces and an ammunition cart.
In February Mr. Nathaniel Martin of Barrington was ap- pointed a member of a Committee to procure gold and silver coins in exchange for " lawful money bills," to carry on mili- tary operations in Canada. Matthew Allin and Samuel Bosworth were cited to appear before the Assembly, for what purpose is not recorded ; Peleg Heath of Barrington was chosen lieutenant in the First Regiment. In March Joseph Carlo Mauran of Barrington was chosen master of the row- galley Spitfire, to operate in Rhode Island waters, and Samuel Viall of Wannamoisett was first lieutenant. Captain Thomas Allin was a member of a Committee to procure arms and accoutrements for the supply of the Barrington militia. Mr. Nathaniel Martin had assisted in the conveyance of cattle and merchandise from Block Island to the main land, and was allowed £23, 2d. for his services. The General Assembly, on report of a committee, ordered that in stationing the troops for defence, one company be placed at Barrington. In the distribution of five hundred pounds of gunpowder in the spring of 1776, two hundred pounds were delivered to Bristol, one hundred and fifty pounds to Barrington, and the same amount to Warren.
In May Edward Bosworth and Thomas Allin were chosen to represent the town in the General Assembly, and at the May session Nathaniel Martin, Esq., of Barrington, was chosen Colonel of the Bristol County Regiment, and Thomas Allin, captain, Viall Allen, lieutenant, and Daniel Kinnicutt, ensign of the Barrington militia. Edward Bosworth was appointed an inspector of salt, in answer to the offer of a bounty of three shillings a bushel for all salt manufactured in the Colony. It was at this time that salt was manufactured at Barrington, on the farm now owned and occupied by Hon. John Jenckes. In June on recommendation of the Conti- nental Congress "that an account be taken of the number of inhabitants in the Colony," the Assembly appointed Mr.
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Thomas Allin to take the Census of Barrington ; Of the salt belonging to the Colony, 25 bushels were apportioned to Barrington.
In June Philip Traffern of Barrington was appointed a lieutenant in the First Regiment. In September the Assem- bly voted to allow Barrington to erect a hospital for the inoc- ulation of the small pox in accordance with the Act passed in June. This hospital was erected on Rumstick Point, on the farm of Nathaniel Smith. September 7th the apportionment of salt to Barrington from the State supply was seventy-seven and three-eighths bushels. The population of the town was declared to be 538. Thomas Allin was allowed by the Assembly £25, 1Is., for iron work on field carriages, and also £7, 4s., " for his services as captain of minute men, and of those under him on Prudence Island." At the October ses- sion of the General Assembly, Mr. Moses Tyler was the Bar- rington deputy, and Nathaniel Martin was elected Colonel of the Bristol County Regiment. Viall Allin was made lieuten- ant in Capt. Moses Turner's Company. Philip Traffern was chosen first lieutenant in Col. Stanton's Regiment. In December, 1776, Viall Allin was promoted to the Captaincy of the Barrington Company of militia, vice Thomas Allin, promoted ; Daniel Kinnicutt was promoted from ensign to lieutenant, and James Martin was chosen as ensign, vice Kinnicutt.
1777.
The state valuation of Barrington was £22,575. Warren, £20,000 ; Bristol, £50,000. Simeon Potter of Bristol pro- tested that "owing to the present distressed situation of Bristol," "the said town is not able at present to pay so large a tax as either Warren or Barrington." In March the As- sembly appointed Mr. Henry Bowen "to number all persons able to bear arms in Barrington."
John Kelly was allowed £15, 9s., 4d., "for the ferriages of a number of soldiers and their baggage and a number of horses."
Paul Mumford, a distinguished citizen of Newport, and a
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deputy from that town, purchased an estate in Barrington in 1774 and removed here with his family. His residence was the brick mansion house under the great elms at the corner south of the Episcopal Church at Barrington Centre. He became one of the most influential citizens of Barring- ton and was elected as a deputy to the Assembly with Peleg Heath at the spring election.
In April Barrington was called upon to enlist eight soldiers for the Continental battalions, to fill her quota in the service.
Peleg Heath was chosen major of the Bristol County Regiment in May.
A fifteen months' brigade was ordered to be enlisted and the Barrington quota was eleven men.
The Assembly ordered Barrington to furnish four barrels of flour, eight blankets, and one ton, nineteen pounds given to Barrington, as its proportion of the state order, to be delivered within ten days of the rising of the Assembly, and Major Peleg Heath was appointed to secure the blankets, paying for the best no more than thirty shillings.
In June Joseph Carlo Mauran of Barrington was chosen captain of the row-galley, Washington.
In July Paul Mumford was chosen, in Grand Committee of the Assembly, one of a commission of three to meet com- missioners of other New England Colonies and New York at Springfield, Mass., to consult on measures of safety and defence for the northern colonies.
In August Mr. Mumford, with William Bradford, Stephen Hopkins and Henry Ward, the commissioners to Springfield, were made a committee " to draft a bill for the better supply of the troops raised by this colony."
At the same session Major Peleg Heath was appointed a recruiting officer for Barrington "to recruit men to fill up the Continental battalions raising within this colony."
Paul Mumford was ordered paid £18, oos. Iod. for his time, his servant, two horses and a carriage, and for his ex- penses to and from Springfield to meet the commissioners of other states.
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In October Barrington was ordered to procure eighteen pairs of yarn stockings for the use of the soldiers, her quota of " one thousand pairs of good yarn stockings."
In December thirty-two pairs of "men's good yarn stock- ings " were called for from Barrington.
The same month Thomas Allin was chosen captain in the first battalion, and Philip Traffern captain in the second.
1778.
In February Nathaniel Humphrey was chosen first lieu- tenant in Colonel Crary's regiment. Josiah Humphrey, Esq., was chosen to hear petitions and report on "issues within this state," pursuant to a resolution of Congress. Josiah Humphrey was also made one of a committee of five " to draft a bill for taking a general estimate throughout the state." He was also chosen one of a committee of five "to estimate the value of the slaves who may enlist into the Con- tinental battalions." In March Mr. Josiah Humphrey was appointed one of a large committee to take action relative to the establishment of Continental loan officers for the raising of money for the government on loan certificates, no certifi- cate being issued for less than $200.
In May, 1778, Josiah Humphrey was elected as a deputy. Peleg Heath was chosen major of the Bristol Co. Reg. Viall Allen was chosen captain, Daniel Kinnicutt lieutenant, and James Martin ensign of the Barrington Company.
Mr. Samuel Allen was appointed to pay the bounty to Barrington soldiers. Barrington was ordered to raise ten men for the army as her quota of the last call. At the same session Barrington was exempted from the call to send one- sixth of her " militia independent and alarm Companies" for fifteen days.
Josiah Humphrey, Esq., was appointed "to inquire into the number of guns, bayonets and cotouch boxes," etc., in Barrington.
Josiah Humphrey, Esq., was chosen a member of the State Council of War for Bristol County.
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Capt. Thomas Allin made report to the Assembly of sun- dry articles of clothing of the soldiers in his company, " also of one gun and accoutrements and one silver-mounted hanger belonging to himself which were destroyed and taken by the British troops at Bristol," and the return was referred to the Council of War.
In September Barrington was required to furnish forty- eight pairs of yarn stockings.
In October, Josiah Humphrey, Esq., was made a member .of the Council of War for the state and in December his expenses for services were allowed for £27, 19S.
1779.
In February Thomas Allin was chosen captain and Nathaniel Humphrey lieutenant in the first battalion, and Philip Traffern captain in the second battalion.
In May Messrs. Edward Bosworth and Samuel Allen rep- resented the town in the Assembly. Peleg Heath was re- elected as major of the Bristol County Regiment. Paul Mumford was elected a member of the Council of War, and in October he was allowed £63, 16s. for horse hire and ex- penses in attendance on meetings. Mr. Mumford was also made a member of a committee "to consider divers resolu- tions of Congress and public letters of great importance, requiring immediate consideration."
Viall Allin was chosen captain, Daniel Kinnicutt lieuten- ant, and John Short, Jr., ensign of the Barrington company. In December a new battalion was ordered to be raised and Paul Mumford was appointed one of a committee of three to consider the best ways and means to recruit the same.
1780.
Edward Bosworth and Samuel Allen were deputies in the Assembly. Peleg Heath was again elected major of the Bris- tol County Regiment, and Viall Allen captain, Daniel Kin- nicutt lieutenant, and John Short, Jr., ensign of the Barring-
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ton company. The state clothier was ordered to return eighteen pairs stockings to Daniel Kinnicutt.
In March Samuel Allen was made one of a committee of five to procure "two hundred pairs of linen stockings of good quality, not whitened, and ninety pairs linen breeches," for which the state allowed $8,000.
In June Barrington was required to raise seven men for the Continental battalions, and Thomas Allin was appointed to pay the bounties to the soldiers. Captain Allin was also appointed to procure the quota of blankets from the town, and he was directed to purchase the said blankets at the most reasonable prices, "and not to give more than £80 lawful money apiece for them of the best quality." Blankets were also paid for by certificates which were "receivable in pay- ment of the next state tax."
In July Philip Traffern was again appointed captain. At the same session Barrington was called upon to furnish 800 pounds of beef and seventy bushels of grain for the Conti- nental army.
The Committee to estimate the polls and ratable property of the state, made the following report for Barrington : " Ratable polls, 92 ; Slaves from 10 to 50 years, 6; Money and trading stock, £850, IIs .; Ounces of plate, 148 ; Horses from six months, 56; Oxen, 48; Horned Cattle, 305 ; Sheep and goats, 649; Ratable value of all property, £29,915, 13s.
Of the 634 men called for to assist Count de Rochambeau, Barrington was ordered to furnish seven, and Messrs. Samuel Allen, John Short, Viall Allen, Thomas Allin, and Nathaniel Smith were a Committee to receive recruits. The bounty paid each man on enlistment was £7, Ios., in bills of the state, or in gold or silver within six months. Paul Mumford was allowed £1,736, Ios., for services as a Justice of the Supreme Court. In September Paul Mumford was re-elected as second Justice of the Supreme Court.
Philip Traffern's resignation as a captain in Col. Christo- pher Greene's Regiment was accepted, and he received his pay of £163, 4s.
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A Committee of the Assembly to revise and amend the late estimate of ratable property, of which Thomas Allin was a member, reported for Barrington as follows: Barrington, number of acres, 4,121 ; price per acre, £6, 3s. ; value of real estate, £25,344, 3s. ; total value of town, £29,915, 13s.
In November Mr. Thomas Allin represented to the Assem- bly that several persons, enlisted into the service, for three months, from Barrington, had not been paid the bounty of £7, IOS .; it was voted that they be paid £52, Ios. in new bills, "or in Continental bills of the old issue at seventy-two for one."
The Assembly adopted the report of Committee of State valuation, making that of Barrington, £29,915, 13s.
Thomas Allin was allowed £79, 16s. for blankets procured from Barrington, and also £1,033, 15s, for his services as one of Committee of state valuation.
1781.
Philip Traffern and Viall Allen were chosen captains in the Bristol County battalion under Col. Nathaniel Church.
Thomas Allin was made the member of a Committee to provide twelve bushels of corn from Barrington, "the corn to be purchased ground into meal and delivered to the Com- missary."
Thomas Allin, with John Child, reported to the Assembly that Nathaniel Fales, Jr., had sustained a damage of £58, IOs., "by reason of an hospital's being erected for the French troops upon the farm he hired of the state."
In May Samuel Allen, Esq., was elected a deputy from Barrington.
Paul Mumford of Barrington was elected by the General Assembly Chief Justice of the Superior Court.
Peleg Heath was re-elected Major of Bristol County Reg- iment.
The May session of the Assembly fixed the new valuation of Barrington at £30,000, for purposes of state taxation.
Philip Traffern and Viall Allen were chosen captains of
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Companies in Thomas Potter's Regiment, and John Viall a lieutenant, "to serve for one month."
Thomas Allin was chosen captain, Daniel Kinnicutt, lieu- tenant, and John Short ensign of the Barrington Company.
In July Mr. Thomas Allin was chosen a Committee to procure two bushels of corn or rye from Barrington before 8th of November, " or one silver dollar in lieu of each bushel of corn or rye."
In December the Assembly appointed a Committee of which Thomas Allin was a member, "to devise the best ways and means to supply the troops doing duty on the island of Rhode Island with their rations for the winter." The Committee reported later in the month, and the report was adopted.
1782.
Thomas Allin was appointed in January, as one of a Com- mittee to apportion a tax of £12,000 for a state tax, £6,000 for a continental tax and £6,000 in articles of produce.
Paul Mumford was voted the sum of £43 4s. 8d., for a slave enlisted in Col. Greene's Regiment, in 1778.
A Committee reported Barrington deficient to the amount of 213 lbs. of beef, Warren 783, and Bristol 1,760, for the use of the army. The new valuation of Barrington was £30,720.
Thomas Allin was chosen as a recruiting officer for sol- diers to enlist for three years, the bounty to be $100 in specie.
Mr. Thomas Allin was appointed to take the census for Barrington. He was also allowed £73, 6s., IId., on the pay- abstract of his regiment.
In February Barrington was called on for its quota of 28 yards of "good yard-wide, whitened tow-cloth and 4 pairs of good yarn stockings."
At the May session Viall Allen and Samuel Allen were deputies to the Assembly. Elkanah Humphrey was allowed £8, 2s. for his interest in Cato Bannister, a negro slave, en- listed into the regiment of Col. Christopher Greene. Capt.
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Thomas Allin was allowed £4, 13s,. 4d. in lieu of clothing due him.
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