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 SERVICES OF SOLDIERS. 389 Martin, Samuel. Son of John and Mary Martin; b. Feb. 28, 1750; enlisted in Capt. Tiiomas Allin's Co., Col. Cook's Reg.; was in a company of Col. Robert Elliott's Reg. during the Revolutionary War, and at the close of the war there was due him £18, 7s., 8d., which he never received from the Government. Martin, Samuel, Capt. Son of Ebenezer and Mary Martin; b. March 24, 1759. He was in the Co. of Capt. Caleb Carr, and Reg. of Col. William Richmond, Oct. 10, 1776, and receipted for arms, Dec. 25, 1776 ; at the close of the war there was due him from the Government, £14, 9s., id., which he never received. R. I. Colonial Records, Vol. 8, p. 394. He d. Sept. 18, 1S26. Matthew, Daniel. Enlisted in Capt. Thomas Allin's Co, Col. Smith's Reg., Jan. 8, 1777; received bounty of £6, advanced pay £2, 12s., i shirt, 3 pairs stockings, and 2 pairs shoes; deserted, July 20, 1777. Mauran, Joseph Carlo, Commander. In August, 1775, "two row-gal- leys, or gunboats, each to carry sixty men, afterwards reduced to fifty, and an eighteen pounder, besides swivel guns, were ordered by the General Assembly, They were named the Waskifigton and the Joseph Carlo Mauran was appointed master of the Spitfire in March, 1776; held his position until the partial destruction of the vessel in March, 1777, soon after which date he was promoted to the command of her consort, the Waskington. In April, 1776, the two galleys had a series of engagements, in connection with artillery on the land, with the British vessels Scarborough, twenty guns, and Cimetar, eighteen guns, in Newport harbor. In a night attack, the Spitfire captured from the Scarborough a prize she had recently brought in. In July, 1776, the galleys were sent to New York, to be placed under the orders of General Washington, bur soon returned. At the session of the General Assembly, October, 1776, Mr. John Brown was appointed to inquire into the affair of the prizes taken by the two row-galleys in the harbor of Newport, and see that the government's part of the prizes be paid into the General Treasury, and, at the same time the State gave up its rights to certain anchors and cables taken by the Spitfire in the harbor of Newport. February 21, 1777, the Spitfire "had an action in covering the landing of a party to bring off hay from Rhode Island, which lasted several hours, with a battery on shore, in which the Americans lost one man killed and several wounded." February 27, 1777, the Council-of-war * "Resolved that the eighteen-pound cannon on board the >S//V/re which had the nut shot away, be exchanged for one of the eighteen- pound cannon now at Warren." March 13, 1777, the Spitfire ran aground on Common-Fence Point, (north end of Rhode Island), and the enemy partially destroyed her. She was repaired, however, and, on May 1, 1777, officers were ap-