The Rhode Island Republican

MEMOIR OF RHODE-ISLAND
1694.

The records of the Assembly are again missing. John Easton was re-elected Governor and John Greene Deputy Governor; and the Deputies for Newport were John Easton Jun. Jonathan Holmes, William James, William Hiscock, Capt. Henry Tew, Stephen Mumford.

1695.

At a General Assembly sitting by adjournment in the Colony House in Newport the 2d day of July 1695.

CALEB CARR, Gov.
JOHN GREENE, Dep. Gov.
Assistants.
Benedict Arnold
Samuel Cranston
James Barker
Stephen Arnold
Henry Brightman
Giles Slocum
Benjamin Smith
William Gibson
Jeffery Champlin.
Joseph Jenkins.

Deputies.
Newport.
Henry Tew
John Staunton
John Rogers
Jireh Bull
Nathaniel Sheffield
William Barker

Providence.
Jonathan Sprague
William Hopkins
Thomas Field
Thomas Fenner

Portsmouth.
None.

Warwick.
Benjamin Gorton
Randal Holden
Benjamin Barton
John Warner

Last Greenwich.
George Vaughan
Samuel Bennett

Jamestown.
Nicholas Carr
Joseph Mowrey

Kingston.
William Knowles
Samuel Tift

WESTON CLARKE. Recorder

"Colony House, not to be used for religious meetings

Whereas several and most of the inhabitants freemen of this Colony is dissatisfied that the Colony House is improved to other uses than what it was built for ; wherefore upon consideration thereof by this Assembly, and to settle the House for the use it was built, do hereby order and declare that the said Colony house in Newport shall not be improved for no other use than Judicial and Military affairs, and not for any ecclesiastical use, or uses of that nature."

This Assembly ordered a tax of two pence a pound on the valuation of all property in the towns, and directed the Treasurer to receive in payment of this tax, money; in wool at seven-pence half-penny the pound, Butter at 4d the pound, Indian-Corn 2s the bushel, Rye 2s-3d the bushel, or Pork 1-18s-0 the barrel.

On Stock, the owners were required to pay specifically viz. Oxen over 4 years old per head 6d Steers and Cows 3 years old 4d.--Two years old 2d one year old 1d.-Sheep one year old and upwards per score 10d Swine 1 year old 1s 1d.-Horses and Mares over three years old 6d. 2 years old 2d one year old 1d.

At a General Assembly sitting at Warwick at the house of Mr. John Law. October 30th 1695.

Deputies from Newport.
John Coggeshall
Henry Tew
William Hiscock
Jonathan Holmes
John Easton Jun.
Nath'l Coddington

A prison was ordered to be built in Providence, and the charge thereof be borne by the town of Providence at present."

A tax of £100 was ordered to raise that sum for the Colonies use in England. The tax on Negroes and live stock was specific, and as follows. On a Negro man servant 1s-6d woman 1s 10d Oxen 3d Steer or Cow 2d all under 2 years old 1d-1 year ls 1-2d.-Sheep per score 5d-Horses and Mares 3d the same under 3 years 1d.

Death of Governor Caleb Carr.

Caleb Carr was a native of Scotland and came to Rhode-Island, but the precise time is not known : he was a large owner of land in the towns of Newport and Jamestown, some of which is still held by his descendents. together with the ferry between Newport and Jamestown, which Ferry was originally granted to him, and has ever since remained in the family.

He held various offices in the Colony-and was Governor here in 1695 and died before the expiration of that political year.

" : His tomb-stone is now legible, and lies in the Carr
family burying ground in Newport, which ground was sequestered and given by him for that use : It contains the following inscription viz.

Here lies the body of Caleb Carr Governor of this Colony, who departed this life the 17th day of Dec. in the 73d year of his age, in the year 1695.

Genealogy of the Carr family.

Caleb Carr died 1695, leaving three sons John, Nicholas and Samuel. John settled in Newport, Nicholas in Jamestown, and Samuel on Long-Island, John the oldest died in Newport 1717, leaving four sons Samuel, Caleb, Robert and Francis.

Samuel the oldest settled and died in Newport 1740, leaving four sons Caleb, Samuel, Ebenezer and John. Samuel the second son, settled in Newport ; afterwards moved to Jamestown, and died 1796, leaving two sons, Samuel and Ebenezer; Samuel the oldest settled in Newport and died 1814, leaving five sons and one daughter, who owns the Ferry estate which descended to them in a regular line from Caleb Carr, to whom the first grant was given for a Ferry between Newport and Jamestown by the Assembly of Rhode-Island.

This year " several ministers of the Massachusetts Colony came and preached here" (Newport) to some who desired it. The next year there was a meeting house erected, in which the public worship of God was maintained by the Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Clap."