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WAR LEGISLATION. 359 Rhode Island do solemnly covenant for our Country for its peace and Safety, and pledge our Sacred Honor that we will with our most hearty endeavours bring to punishment all persons above Described who dare to Return into this State, who have acted directly or Indirectly In word or deed in favour of the Enemy to the prejudice of the good Citizens of this State or of the United States and that we will exert ourselves in the Just and Vigorous execution of the Laws against Them, And the Representatives of this Town are hereby Directed to make use of Every Exertion to prevent them or any of them from coming into this State." 1 784-1 792. Samuel Allen represented the town in the Assembly in 1784. Paul Mumford of Harrington was chosen chief jus- tice of the Superior Court, and Elkanah Humphrey a jus- tice in the Court of Common Pleas for Bristol County. Thomas Allin was chosen lieutenant colonel commandant of the Bristol County Regiment. John Short, Jr., was chosen captain, George Salisbury lieutenant, and Abel Grant ensign of the Barrington Co. of militia. In 1785 Josiah Humphrey and Samuel Allen represented the town in the Assembly. The Honorable Paul Mumford was elected in grand committee of the Assembly to repre- sent the state in the Continental Congress at New York. Elkanah Humphrey was continued as a justice of the Court of Common Pleas. Comfort Bishop was paid a pension to the first day of January, 1785, at twenty shillings per month, it being an allowance of half pay for life on account of wounds or disability resulting from military service. This is the first recorded pension allowed a Barrington soldier of the Revolution. Mr. Bishop was a private in Col. Jeremiah Olney's Regiment, twenty-nine years old. He lost the use of his left wrist and hand, occasioned by a sore gathering on the wrist, when under inoculation for small pox at the