. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ons they have, that as they are Englishmen, so they may setup the same manufactures here as people may do in England.* The Department (up to 1??(>) consisted as follows: Engine Company No. 1 — Location, rear of City Hall. Engine Company No. 2—Rear of City Hall. Engine Company No. —At Kalch-Hook Pond. Engine Company No. 4—Broadway and a lane leading down to Jansenswindmill, midway between Little Queen and Fair streets. Engine Company No. 5—On Smit Valley, now Pearl street. Eng
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ons they have, that as they are Englishmen, so they may setup the same manufactures here as people may do in England.* The Department (up to 1??(>) consisted as follows: Engine Company No. 1 — Location, rear of City Hall. Engine Company No. 2—Rear of City Hall. Engine Company No. —At Kalch-Hook Pond. Engine Company No. 4—Broadway and a lane leading down to Jansenswindmill, midway between Little Queen and Fair streets. Engine Company No. 5—On Smit Valley, now Pearl street. Engine Company No. (i—Crown street, near King, now Nassau. Engine Company No. 7—Duke street, leading down to Terry, now Stone. Engine Company No. 8—At the Tar Pits, foot of now Maiden Lane. Truck Company No. 2—Fair, near King street. Truck Company No. 2—S. E. of the Battery, adjoining the Basin. During the war the Department was completely demoralized, but twoengines having survived. Most of the members were killed, and when theBritish evacuated the city only one of the engines left would VIEW OF NEW YORK 11 ARBOR, FROM NAUER, FORT HAMILTON, in possession of W, M. Randell, Office of Fire Underwriters. 40 UlR F 1 UK M K N. C II A [*T K R I V. ; ok a xkw kka. 1783-1797.—The British Evacuate the City.— Henceforth New York was to move on her MarvelousCareer.—Address of the Firemen to Governor Clinton. Formation of a new Fire Organization.—The Fresh Water Pond.—New Companies Organized.—Fire Buckets and Their Uses.—Location ofEngine Houses. /\N tin; twenty-fourth of March. i;s:;. Robert R. Livingston. 11n- SecretaryV_y of Foreign Affairs, notified General Washington, then at West Point,of the agreeable intelligence of a general peace, and on the ninth ofApril following, at twelve oclock, peace was proclaimed from the steps of theCity Hall by the town major. On the twenty-tilth day of November theAmerican army, under the comm
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