Officers to command the several Trained Bands, or Companies of Militia, June 1775 


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Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England. Printed
1862, volume 7, June 1775   
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Officers to command the several Trained Bands, or Companies of Militia in the Colony
 [Note: All spelling is as written in the book.]


•Portsmouth: first company---Burrington Anthony, captain; David Gifford, lieutenant;
Stephen Borden, ensign. •Warwick: first company---Abraham Lockwood, captain; Sylvester
Wickes, lieutenant; Job Randall, ensign. 
•Second company---Reuben Wightman, captain; Squire Milward, lieutenant; James Jarauld,
ensign. •Third company---Thomas Rice, son of Thomas, captain; Anthony Holden, son of
Charles, lieutenant; Stukely Stafford, Jr. Ensign. 
•Westerly: first company---Thomas Thompson, captain; Joseph Pendleton, lieutenant; Joshua
Pendleton, ensign. 
•Second company---John Gavet, captain; Stephen Saunders, Jr., lieutenant; William Bliven,
ensign. 
•New Shoreham company---John Sands, captain; Samuel Rathbun, Jr., lieutenant; William
Littlefield, ensign. •North Kingstown: first company---Thomas Clarke, captain; John
Manchester, lieutenant; William Reynolds, ensign. 
•Second company; Thomas Cole, captain; Charles Dyre, lieutenant; William Taylor, ensign.
•Third company; Thomas Bissell, Jr., captain; Timothy Deane, lieutenant; Robert Potter,
ensign. 
•South Kingstown: first company---Samuel Seager, captain; Gideon Babcock, lieutenant;
Daniel Williams, ensign. 
•Second company---Abial Brown, captain; James Parker, lieutenant; Barber Peckham, ensign. 
•East Greenwich: first company---Nathaniel Gardner, captain; Ebenezer Spencer, lieutenant;
William Hall, ensign. 
•Second company---Allen Johnston, captain; Michael Spencer, lieutenant; Stephen Greene,
ensign. 
•Scituate: first company---Peleg Fisk, captain; Nathan Relph, lieutenant; Nathan Bates,
ensign. 
•[No second company listed] •Third company---Stephen Kimball, captain; Joseph Davis,
lieutenant; James Williams, ensign. •Fourth company---Jeremiah Davis, captain; Isaac
Hopkins, lieutenant; Oziel Smith, ensign. •Fifth company---Samuel Wilbur, captain; Thomas
Field, lieutenant; William Potter, ensign. 
•Glocester: first company---Benajah Whipple, captain; Simon Smith, lieutenant; John Eddy,
ensign. 
•Second company---Samuel Mayes, captain; Ezekial Phettiplace, lieutenant; Daniel Mathewson,
ensign. •Third company---Abraham Winsor, captain; Stephen Pain, lieutenant; Richard Lewis,
ensign. •Fourth company---Stephen Winsor, captain; Aaron Arnold, lieutenant; Isaac Ross,
ensign. 
•Charlestown company---Thomas Scheffield, captain; Jonathon Macomber, lieutenant; Caleb
Crandall, ensign. •West Greenwich: first company---Eleazer Carr, captain; Abel Greene,
lieutenant; Abel Mathewson, 2d., ensign. 
•Second company---Jeremiah Austin, captain; Benjamin Gorton, lieutenant; Joseph Weaver,
ensign. •Third company---John Mathewson, Jr., captain; Josiah Mathewson, lieutenant; Samuel
Reynolds, ensign. 
•Exeter: first company---Christopher Champlin, captain; Abel Fowler, lieutenant; Isaiah
Wilcox, ensign. 
•Second company---John Hoxsie, captain; George Sweet, lieutenant; Eber Shearman, ensign. 
•Bristol company---Jeremiah Ingraham, captain; Stephen Smith, lieutenant; Hezekiah Munro,
ensign. •Tiverton: first company---Christopher Manchester, captain; Isaac Cooke,
lieutenant; Philip Manchester, ensign. 
•Second company---Benjamin Durfee, captain; Ebenezer Slocum, lieutenant; Jonathon Deval,
ensign. 
•Little Compton company---George Simmons, captain; Samuel Gray, lieutenant; David Cooke,
ensign. •Warren company---Amos Haile, captain; John Ormsbee, lieutenant; Smith Bowen,
ensign. •Cumberland: first company---Enoch Weatherhead, captain; Elisha Waterman,
lieutenant; Benjamin Wilkinson, ensign. 
•Second company---Levi Tower, captain; Elias Philbrook, lieutenant; Levi Ballou, ensign. 
•Cranston: first company---John King, Jr., captain; Anthony Potter, lieutenant; Josiah
Potter, ensign. 
•Second company---Frederick Williams, captain; Nathaniel Carpenter, lieutenant; John
Harris, ensign. •Third company---Edward Knight, captain; William Field, 2d., lieutenant;
Joseph Potter, ensign. 
•Hopkinton: first company---Barker Wells, captain; Oliver Babcock, lieutenant; Elnathan
Wells, ensign. 
•Second company---George Thurston, Jr., captain; Matthew Randall, lieutenant; Randall
Wells, ensign. 
•Johnston: first company---Richard Thornton, captain; Richard Fenner, Jr., lieutenant;
Daniel Sprague, ensign. 
•Second company---Emmor Olney, captain; Daniel Angell, lieutenant; Laban Waterman, ensign. 
•North Providence company---Job Olney, captain; Charles Olney, Jr., lieutenant; Eleazer
Jenckes, ensign. •Barrington company---Thomas Allen, captain; Samuel Bosworth, lieutenant;
Vial Allen, ensign.