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 352 THE HISTORY OF BAREINGTON. 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 ehns 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 £1^, cos. lod. 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.