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Catalog Number/Object ID |
2009-100-1No5.03 |
Object Name |
Folders (containers) |
Title |
Fire Department 1800-1819 |
Caption of Image |
Petition for a Fire Watch |
Scope & Content/Description |
This file contains: 2 letters/petitions to the Selectmen both dated June 1811 which mention fires being set in neighboring communities. One is a petition to hold a Town Meeting to consider the digging of more wells for water supply in the event of similar fires. The other is a suggestion that the Selectmen set a " voluntary watch during the remander of the season." Another letter request the Town supply a house for the Turrant Engine, and another requesting the Town pay for repairs on the Union Engine and a building for it. The remaining papers are receipted invoices for labor and materials supplied to the Firewards. Names in People file Merchants Etc. in Notes |
Subjects |
Fire engines & equipment |
Date |
1800 |
Year Range from |
1800 |
Year Range to |
1819 |
Catalog date |
2010-03-25 |
People |
Barker, George Barker, Joseph Blanchfield, Oliver Blaney, Jonathan C. Boden, John Bray, E. Brown John, 3rd. Candler, Sam Cloutman, Joseph Cloutman, Samuel Cloutman, Thomas Devereux, Nathan K. Dixey, Perte Finch, Ralph, H. Foss, Samuel Girdler, Lewis Goodwin, John Goodwin, Joseph Goodwin, William, Jr. Graves, Amos E. Graves, Ebenezer Graves, John Graves, Joseph Gregory, Joseph Hadson, Peter Harris, John, 4th Harris, Mason Harris, Mason, 3rd. Harris, Robert, Jr. Homan, Phillips, Jr. Hooper, Benjamin T. Hooper, John G. Hooper, Nathan Hooper, Robert Humphreys, John Johnson, Benoice Kingsbury, Leavert Laskey, Andrew Lefavour, John Lindsey, Nathan Lindsey, Richard Martin, Nathan B. Martin, Samuel Morse, Levi Newhall, Joel Orne, John Parce, Robert Pedrick, Richard, Jr. Phillips, Nathan Porter, Ebenezer Prentis, Joshua Prentiss, Harry Preston, Richard Proctor, Nicholas Reed, William Reynolds, John Roundy, John Roundy, Joseph Russell, John R. Selman, F. G. Smith, Benjamin Smith, C. Smith, James Stone, Thomas B. Tedder, John Tingally, John Topham, James, Jr. Trefry, Samuel L. Weed, Dan Williams, John Wilson, Joseph |
Search Terms |
Old Town records |
Lexicon category |
10: Unclassifiable Artifacts |
Lexicon sub-category |
Need to Classify |
Collection |
Gosling Collection |
Condition |
Good |