. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . e, was presented by the company with t he Bible andthe hitter. No. .i 5). - Franklin—Good Intent (Skiver.).—Upon the petition ofGilbert B. Mott and others, Fire Engine Company No. 39 was established onApril 6, 1812, among whose officers and men were: Gilbert B. Mott, fore-man ; John M. Read, assistant foreman; Thomas , secretary;Jacob Stoutehburgh, William McKenny, Thomas W. Hoyt, Nathaniel Merritt,John Sutherland, Elkanah Talbot, William B. Reed, William Leary, PeterA
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . e, was presented by the company with t he Bible andthe hitter. No. .i 5). - Franklin—Good Intent (Skiver.).—Upon the petition ofGilbert B. Mott and others, Fire Engine Company No. 39 was established onApril 6, 1812, among whose officers and men were: Gilbert B. Mott, fore-man ; John M. Read, assistant foreman; Thomas , secretary;Jacob Stoutehburgh, William McKenny, Thomas W. Hoyt, Nathaniel Merritt,John Sutherland, Elkanah Talbot, William B. Reed, William Leary, PeterAymar, Jediah Morris, Uzziah Wenman. This company used the CrosbyPatent, but it proved to be a failure, and in January, 1814, it was decided toabandon that system of construction and revert to the old plan, to conformwith which it was found necessary to alter No. 39. The company was firstlocated in Partition Street (Fulton), corner of Church, next in Vesey, nearChurch Street, in 1834 at the old Bridewell Park, and in 1840 in Dover company was reorganized at St. Pauls Churchyard in Vesey Street, on. LADY WASHINGTON NO 40.[In Engine House 33. Owned by Assistant Chief Bonner. March 20, 1820, with twenty-six men, and among the members were WilliamSnell, accountant, foreman, and John Post, druggist, of Greenwich and Cort-landt Streets, assistant foreman ; Abraham H. Kipp, merchant, BarclayStreet; John Dupont, merchant, Hester Street; Frederick Pentz, merchant,49 Vesey Street; Edward Williams, merchant, Fifth Avenue ; Charles , 26 Howard Street. The company was disbanded on March 1, 1843. Franklin (second of the name) was organized December 27, 1853, and waslocated in Thirty-first Street, near Seventh Avenue, going out of service in1865. At an alarm of fire, on January 24, 1864, in Thirty-first Street, betweenSeventh and Eighth Avenues, the second district apparatus were all present,although the bells did not ring. While Hibernia Engine Company No. 15were
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