Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . he act was passed, andthe 17th section authorized the trustees to nominate, elect, andappoint such numbers of fire wardens and firemen as they might fromtime to time deem necessary, and exempt those elected from serving as overseers of highways, oras constables or jurors, or toserve in the militia, exceptin case of insurrection orinvasion. Additional power wasconferred on the trustees by-. this act, as under the pre-H vious act the number of|ss firemen to be appointed wasite limited. It was quite n
Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . he act was passed, andthe 17th section authorized the trustees to nominate, elect, andappoint such numbers of fire wardens and firemen as they might fromtime to time deem necessary, and exempt those elected from serving as overseers of highways, oras constables or jurors, or toserve in the militia, exceptin case of insurrection orinvasion. Additional power wasconferred on the trustees by-. this act, as under the pre-H vious act the number of|ss firemen to be appointed wasite limited. It was quite neces-sary that the number shouldW be increased, as a large num-f ber of new buildings, chieflyof wood, were being contin-ually erected; and, therefore,^ new engines and a larger Walsh- number of men to operate At the time I speak of (1816) the populationhad reached five thousand, with a certain prospect of a continuedincrease of at least equal ratio with the twenty years preceding. On June 2, 1817, being the day appointed by public notice to electfiremen, the following persons were elected :. Judge Andr them were required. Engine No. i : Abraham Remsen, Samuel Watts, William Foster, JonathanMorrell, Daniel Spinning, John Murphy, William C. Smith, Boradus Dezendorf, JohnRogers, John M. Robbins, William Jenkins, Jerome Schenck, David Anderson, CharlesHewlett, Ezekiel Raynor, Simeon Richardson, Samuel Shotwell, Gold Silliman, JacobBrown, John Albert, James Flecker, Abraham Boerum. Engine No. 2: Joseph Moser, Jeremiah Wells, Stephen R. Boerum, John , Elias Combs, Edmund Bumford, Septh Rogers, Stephen S. Voris, Winant , Samuel S. Carman, Parskall Wells, Nicholas Covert, Cornelius White, DanielHodges, Henry Wiggins. Engine No. 3: Elijah Raynor, Jacob Garrison, William Morris, William Thomas,Isaac Nostrand, James Titus, John Birdsall, George Storms, Cornelius Van Hone,Robert Millard, Morris Simonson, Michael Trapple, John Patchen, John Simonson^ The Growth of the Dep
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