The city of New Brunswick; its history, its homes & its industries . SOLIDERS MONUMENT George Clark, James Richmond andFrancis Conover. In 1825 an examination of the FireDepartment showed that No. 1 had buteight members; No. 2, six members; was extinct; No. 4 was not mentioned,and No. 5 had eighteen members. Inthat year the department was reorganized. The old No. 3 engine was sold in1828 to the Village of Plainfield anda new one purchased for $ andturned over to a company of thirty men. The names of the first companies ofrecord given in the mmutes of CommonCouncil for April 5, 1 796
The city of New Brunswick; its history, its homes & its industries . SOLIDERS MONUMENT George Clark, James Richmond andFrancis Conover. In 1825 an examination of the FireDepartment showed that No. 1 had buteight members; No. 2, six members; was extinct; No. 4 was not mentioned,and No. 5 had eighteen members. Inthat year the department was reorganized. The old No. 3 engine was sold in1828 to the Village of Plainfield anda new one purchased for $ andturned over to a company of thirty men. The names of the first companies ofrecord given in the mmutes of CommonCouncil for April 5, 1 796, were JohnBayard, Peter Ten Eick, James Bennett,John Plum, James Hodge, Peter Vred- enburg, James Cole, Moses Scott, RobertEastburn, John Voorhees, John Lupp,Peter Vredenburg, Sr. It was the custom for the ladder com-panies to carry their hooks and ladders tothe fires, but on September 6, 1822, Com-mon Council purchased a wagon at acost of $ On May 30, 1823, on the petition ofthe firemen, they voted $200 for the pur-pose of purchasing hats, which, when re-c
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