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 SERVICES OF SOLDIERS. 393 Read, William, Corp. Enlisted in Capt. Thomas AUin's Co., Col. Crary's Reg. Aprils, 1777; was corporal of the Co. ; re-enlisted for one year from March 16, 177S. Reynolds, Thomas. Enlisted from Barrington, May 1777, and received a bounty of £ 16, from Peleg and Nathaniel Heath. Sabin, Samuel. Enlisted in Capt. Thomas AUin's Co., Col. Crary's Reg., Dec. 20, 1776; enlisted in the Continental service March 4, 1777; received bounty of £6, advanced pay £2, 12s., and some clothing. Salisbury, George, Lieut. Was sergeant in Capt. Thomas AUin's Co., August 1775; appeared on the alarm at Bristol, April i, 1776; served on the militia guard of Barrington from April 5, to May 20, 1778; he was sergeant in Capt. Viall Allen's Co., in 17S0; in 17S4 he was chosen lieutenant in Capt. Short's Co. of Barrington militia; he d. Jan. 22, 1818. "Mil. Papers," R. I. Hist. Soc. Abigail Salisbury, widow of George, who was sergeant of a guard stationed at Rumstick Point, was another choice specimen of female patriotism. She was one hundred years old when she applied for a pension, was married fifteen years before the war, and she took an active part in the struggle for Independence, and knit stockings for the whole coast guard of Barrington. Indeed, she was so fond of knitting that she continued it until her death. She showed the writer a pair of stockings she knit, after the war, when she was one hundred years old. — Spirit of '76 in Rhode Island. Ben'jamin Cowell. Sheldon, John. Served in Capt. Thomas AUin's Co.; appeared on the alarm at Bristol, April i, 1776. Short, James. Son of John and Phebe Short; b. April 6, 1753; enlisted in Capt, Thomas AUin's Co., Col. Cook's Reg., Sept. 17, 1776- Short, John, Jr., Capt. Son of John and Phebe Short; b. Feb. 14, 1757. served in Capt. Thomas AUin's Co., August, 1776; appeared on the alarm at Bristol, April i, 1776; served also in Capt. Viall Allen's Co.; was corporal in Capt. Thomas AUin's Co., Col. Crary's Reg. ; was en- sign in 1781, and captain in 1784; d. Aug. 25, 1822. Short, Samuel, Corp. Son of John and Phebe Short, b. March 9, 1755; was druminer in Capt. Thomas AUin's Co. August, 1775; appeared on the alarm at Bristol, April i, 1776; was a private in Capt. Thomas AUin's Co. Col. Crary's Reg., 1778; was a corporal and also a boat- man in Capt. Viall Allen's Co., 1780; was a Revolutionary pensioner; d. Jan. 30, 1836. " Mil. Papers." R. I. Hist. Soc. Smith, Nathaniel, Sergt. Was a minute man, and afterwards a recruit- ing officer, in the early days of the war; was sergeant in Capt. Thomas AUin's Co., August, 1775; appeared on the alarm at Bristol, April i, 1776. On Jan. 20, 1777, Col. Nathaniel Martin ordered a guard to be kept night and day at his father's house on Rumstick. He was also a member of Capt. Samuel Bosworth's artillery Co. : was one of the guard appointed by Col. Nathan Miller, June 5 1777, to serve on Rum-