. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . urns. At the first meeting Wm. M. Guest waslected foreman and served for two years; following him came Leonard , for one year, Richard M. Moll for one year. James M. Burns for twoears, John Lamberson for one year with John F. Feitner as assistant fore-nan. John Hanmiil was foreman for ten years; he had as assistant foremanaCODMorgan for one year, and Miehael Morrissey for one year : Charles Feit-er and Michael Morrissey were the foreman and assistant foreman from 18G311
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . urns. At the first meeting Wm. M. Guest waslected foreman and served for two years; following him came Leonard , for one year, Richard M. Moll for one year. James M. Burns for twoears, John Lamberson for one year with John F. Feitner as assistant fore-nan. John Hanmiil was foreman for ten years; he had as assistant foremanaCODMorgan for one year, and Miehael Morrissey for one year : Charles Feit-er and Michael Morrissey were the foreman and assistant foreman from 18G311 til the disbandnient in ;. This company purchased the old engine and11 appurtenances from the city for six hundred dollars. No. 2.—Chatham Engine Company No. 1 was one of the two engines• i ought from London in 1731. Its foreman, or Overseer as it was termed inhose davs. was John Roosevelt. who was well known as a merchant, also as Merman of the East Ward,nut assistant alderman of tin 1 n l?48 his brother. Nicholas Roosevell, a t t hatWest Ward, became Overseer. The members nit hose da vs were t lie. people at large. It washoused like No. 1 En-gine, in Wall Street. onthe north side of theCity Hall. In 1762 oneHazle wor 1 h was incharge. He was super-seded by James In 1772 it wasdecided by the CityFathers to grant each old enoine house, haxover sqcare. engine a certain num- ber of men—No. 2 being Hawed twenty-one. At this time Jacob Stoutenburgh, soon after chief engi-eer. was overseer or foreman. In 1776 the Department was organized into two military companies, with!hief Stoutenburgh at the head, but directly under the command of Generalieorge Washington. In 1780 Jacob Delamontagne was in command, and so remained until 1784,rhen the Department was virtually reorganized ; although steps were takeno place the Department on a solid basis immediately after the Britishvacuated New York. In the early part of 1784 the engine was removed tohe head of the old
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