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September 19, 1774
The town chose Maj. Timothy Walker and Capt. John Wheeler delegates to attend the proposed Provincal Congress, on the second Tuesday of October next, at Concord, or any other time or place that the major part of the delegates of said province may agree on.
October 3, 1774
The town chose Capt. Thomas Carpenter a delegate for the Provincal Congress, in the room of Capt. John Wheeler, that is dismissed.
January 2, 1775
The town chose Maj. Timothy Walker and Capt. Thomas Carpenter delegates to attend the Provincial Congress to be holden at Cambridge, on the first day of Feburary next.
The Rev. Ephriam Hyde's parish ( then the first Congregational society in Rehoboth, now in East Providence, R.I. {the Church still stands at the corner of Newman and Pawtucket Avenues in E. Prov}), contributed £6, for the releif and support of the poor of Boston, sufferers of the Boston Port Bill.
May 26, 1775
Voted to raise two companies in this town to be ready on any special alarm; one company to be raised in the westerly part, and the other in the easterly part of said town. Likewise voted that every soldier, enlisting to be a minute man, on alarm, shall have three shillings a day, he finding himself, if called into service, until they come to draw provisions out of the provision stores; and then to have two shillings a day, for each day, until they return home again except they shall be paid by the province. Also voted that the selectmen divide the town stock of ammunition, one half for the west part of town, the other half for the east part.
June 12, 1775
Voted that the selectmen provide for the poor of the town of Boston, that are, or shall be, sent to this town, upon the town's credit. Also voted that ther be fifty men in each special alarm compay, exclusive of officers; and that the captains of each company provide a man with a horse-cart and two horses, in order to carry the baggage of the companies in case of alarm.
November 6, 1775
The town voted to borrow four pieces of cannon of Capt. John Lyon and Mr. Nathan Daggett; and voted the sum of £60 to defray the charges of mounting said cannon, and providing the ammunition and other utensils that shall be needful for the same. Also chose a committee, to wait on a committee of the town of Providence, to consult fortifying on Hog-pen Point.
November 13, 1775
Voted to fortify Hog-pen Point nad chose a committee to oversee the business. (This point is in Seekonk, and traces of the fortifcation are still to be seen
{in1836}).
February 12, 1776
Voted to encourage the manufacturing of saltpetre in private families, affording them the materials they can get without doing damage. (Considerable quantities of saltpetre {ingredient in gunpowder}, it is said, were manufactured in the town during the period of the Revolution; and a manufactory was set up near the Cove Factory, in Seekonk, for the purpose of making it.)
April 14, 1776
Voted to raise a bounty of £20 to every soldier that shall enlist into the Continental Army for three years, or during the war, provided they enlist into the said army within ten days. ( This bounty, by vote of the town, May 19, 1777, was extended to every soldier that had enlisted for the same term since the former vote, or who should enlist within twenty days of the last date. And by another vote, passed June 30th, the same bounty was farther extended to all who should enlist into the Continental army within two months from that date.)
May 18, 1778
Voted to raise the sum of £720, for the raising of soldiers for the continental army, for nine months.
September 7, 1778
Voted to grant the sum of £463. 4s. for clothing, purchased by the selectmen, agreable to an order of Court, for the continental soldiers enlisted into the service.