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 TOWN DOINGS. 287 1754. Deputies, James Brown, Capt. Benjamin Barton. Warren's proportion of the tax for public debt of ;^35,ooo was ^80$. 1755. Deputies, James Brown, Capt. Benjamin Barton. Of the colony tax of ;!{^70,ooo, 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,ooo old tenor, levied by the colony, Warren was assessed j£i.2ig; Bristol, 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 ;^ioo,- 000, old tenor, levied for colony purposes, Warren was assessed was levied ;^3,6oo. 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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 * ^2,40o. Of the colonial tax of ;!^ 150,000, old tenor, Warren