The first town meeting was held at the house of William Freeman on April 9, 1778. The first officers chosen were: Thomas Freeman, moderator; Thomas W. White, town clerk; Thomas Freeman, Asa Whitcomb and Solomon Aiken, selectman; Edmund Hodges, Thomas W. White and Capt. Benjamin Cox, assessors; Thomas Freeman, town treasurer; William Cheedle, granf juror; Joseph Byam and Josph Bowman, constable; Henry Curtis and John Newton, surveyors of highways; Ebenezer Caul, Tithingman.

The second town meeting was held on March 29, 1779 and the following officers were chosen: Asa Whitcomb, moderator; Thomas W. White, town clerk; Asa Cheedle, Solomon Aiken and Joseph Byam, selectman; Thomas W. White, Ebenezer Caul and Asa Paige, listers; Timothy Eastman, constable; Timothy Eastman and Timothy Newton, collector of taxes; Moses Davis, John Newton, Ebenezer Caul and Nathaniel Paige, survyors of highways; William Cheedle, leather sealer; Asa Cheedle, grand juryman; William Cheedle and Jabez White, tithingman; Elkannah Steward and Sherebiah Ballard, haywards; Daniel Sharpe, brander of horses; Thomas W. White, sealer of weights and measures. 

Barnard in the American Revolution

"On August 9, 1780 this town was visited by a party of twenty-one Indians, who made prisioners of Thomas M. Wright, Prince Haskell and John Newton, and carried them to Canada. Newton and Wright made their escape in the Spring following, Haskell was exchanged in the fall. They suffered many hardships while prisoners and on their return, but they arrived safely at Barnard, and were all living in 1824, upon the farms from which they were taken."

As a result of the attacks on Barnard the following steps were taken: "the Third and Fourth Regiments of militia assembled and agreed to raise forty volunteers to be commanded by Captain Cox and a lieutenent, for the defense of the frontiers in that vicinity"; "said officers and soldeirs join Major Ebenezer Allen's detachment of rangers"; "That Colonel J. Marsh, Colonel J. Safford. Major B. Wait, Captain Seaver, captain Safford, and Captain Benjamin Cox be a committee to station Captain Safford's and Captain Cox's companies of Rangers."

Captain Hodges and Captain Cox were both Barnard men. Another prominent Barnard man during the war was Lieutenant Foster who served on a number of committee's.

List of Freeman in 1791

Paul Woods, Andrew Stevens Jr., Levi Swift, Lemuel Stevens, Peter Lurvey, Ichabod Clapp, John Cheedle, Jacob Foster, Asa Paige, Silas Woods, John Atwood, Job Read, Whitfield Swift, Solomon Blackmer, Levi Chamberlain, Ebenezer Tabor, Josiah Richmond, Samuel Steward, Nathaniel Dean, Thomas White, John Steward, Elijah Aiken

Town Records show the following men listed as petit jurors for the year 1791: Nathaniel Paige, Samuel Aiken Jr., Thomas Freeman Jr., Joseph Foster Jr., John Foster, Asa Paige, George Paige, Seth Dean, Benjamin Wilber, Thomas Swift, Elijah Barnes, Abraham Richmond Jr., Stewart Southgate, Jacob Lawton, William Freeman.