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Updated: May 15, 2025
Within a short time the first company was organized, then another, and another, the good work continuing until a large part of the property-owners in town belonged to fire-companies. And this method continued until the invention of fire-engines, fire-hooks, and ladders, with other modern implements to assist in extinguishing fires. Franklin was the originator of fire-companies.
Before this the department had consisted of a few leather buckets and a few fire-hooks. In 1731 Governor Montgomery died, and for thirteen months after, Rip Van Dam, oldest member of the council, and a wealthy merchant, looked after the province until the coming of William Cosby. THE TRIAL of ZENGER, the PRINTER Cosby arrived; a testy, disagreeable man who loved money above everything else.
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