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 290 THE HISTORY OF BARRINGTON. 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 ;^$ 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."