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 490 THE HISTORY OF BAEEINGTON. Allen, ensign. The monthly wages of officers and soldiers of the militia were fixed as follows : Captain-lieutenants and captains, £,6 lieutenants, ;£^ ensigns, ;^3, los ; each pri- vate, 40s. a month, a blanket and knapsack and the first months pay in advance. In 1776 Nathaniel Martin was chosen Colonel of the Bris- tol Co. Reg. of militia. The Barrington Co. had as officers, Thomas AUin, Captain ; Viall Allen, Lieutenant ; Daniel Kinnicutt, Ensign. The Chapter on "The Revolution" gives the several changes in the officership of the Company and the distinguished services performed by the Barrington militia as "minute men," "alarm men," and regular soldiers in the ranks of the Colonial and Continental troops. During the Revolution, the militia age was sixteen to sixty, but in the revision of the militia laws after the adoption of the Federal Constitution, changes were made to conform to the United States requirements as follows: "Each and every free able bodied white citizen of the State, resident therein, who is or shall be of the age of eighteen years and under the age of forty-five, shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the Militia," etc. In 1793 Thomas Allin was elected Lieut. Colonel of the Bristol Co. Reg., and Josiah Humphrey, Captain, Samuel Barnes, Lieutenant, and Benjamin Martin, Ensign of the Barrington Co. The following year Colonel Allin was elected Brigadier General of the Bristol Co. Reg. of Militia. In 1807 the Bristol, Warren, and Barrington Companies were organized as the 4th Reg. of R. I. Militia. The regimental trainings were held on the last Monday in April and on the first Monday in September of each year. The training field in Barrington was the open field at Tyler's Point, on New Meadow Neck between the road and the Cemetery, and is shown in the picture on another page. The equipments of each soldier were a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints and a knapsack, a pouch with a box therein to contain not less than twenty- four cartridges suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and