Assistants and Militia Officers Chosen December 10, 1776 



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Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, printed
1862, volume 8, December 10, 1776   
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Assistants and Militia Officers Chosen
 [Note: All spelling is as written in the book.]


•Ebenezer Slocum, captain; Daniel Deval, lieutenant; and Jacob Soule, ensign, of the second
company of militia in the town of Tiverton. •John Jenckes, Esq., fifth assistant, in the room
of John Jepson, Esq., who is now upon the island of Rhode Island, which is possessed by the
enemy. •Daniel Cahoon, Esq., fifth assistant, in the room of the said John Jenckes, Esq., who
refused, engaged. 

Officers chosen for the two Regiments 

•James Mitchell Varnum, Esq., brigadier general of all the forces now raised, or to be
raised, within this state. •Monsieur François Lellorquis De Malmedy, chief engineer and
director of the works of defence within this state, with the rank of brigadier general. •John
Cooke, Esq., colonel of one of the regiments of infantry now ordered to be raised for fifteen
months. •Benjamin Talman, Esq., lieutenant colonel of the same regiment. •William Bradford,
Jr., Esq., major of the same regiment. •Joseph Stanton, Jr., Esq., colonel of the other
regiment of infantry, now ordered to be raised for fifteen months. •Archibald Crary, Esq.,
lieutenant colonel of the same regiment. •William Barton, Esq., major of the same regiment.
•Robert Elliott, Esq., colonel; William Wall, Esq., lieutenant colonel; and Job Pierce, Esq.,
major, of the regiment of the train of artillery. •Ebenezer Adams, Gideon Westcott, Jabez
Westcott, Jr., Samuel Sweet and John Tillinghast, captains of the several companies in the
regiment of the train of artillery. •Jonathon Clarke, Esq., linguist to Brigadier General De
Malmedy, with the rank and pay of a major. •Abimelech Riggs, Caleb Carr, Reuben Ballou, James
Williams, James Parker and Thomas Allin, captains in Col. Cooke’s regiment. •Joseph
Nightingale, Esq., major general of the militia of this state, in the room of Joshua Babcock,
Esq., who is appointed one of the council of war. •Thomas Thompson, Royzel Smith, Malachi
Hammett, George Thurston, Jr., Peleg Slocum and William Roy, captains in Col. Stanton’s
regiment. •Henry Alexander, first lieutenant in Captain Riggs’s company. •Ebenezer Macomber,
first lieutenant in Capt. Carr’s company. •Squire Fiske, first lieutenant in Capt. Ballou’s
company. •Jacob Belknap, first lieutenant in Captain William’s company. •Benjamin Church,
first lieutenant in Captain Parker’s company. •William Lawless, first lieutenant in Capt.
Allin’s company. •Peleg Berry, first lieutenant in Captain Thompson’s company. •William Coon,
Jr., first lieutenant in Captain Smith’s company. •Micah Whitmarsh, first lieutenant in
Captain Hammett’s company. •Beriah Lewis, first lieutenant in Captain Thurston’s company.
•Benjamin Gorton, second lieutenant in Captain William’s company. •Edward Crandall, second
lieutenant in Captain Smith’s company.