Fire clubs (Cooperative societies)
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found: Work cat.: NUCMC data from the Peabody Essex Museum for the Union and Naumkeag Engine Company No. 5 (Salem, Mass.) Records.
found: Earnest, E.P. The volunteer fire company, 1979:p. 14 (In Rhode Island, a group of prominent citizens founded a fire club similar to the Boston Fire Society)
found: Heritage of flames : the illustrated history of early American firefighting, 1977:p. 90 (Closely in touch with Boston developments, the town fathers of Newport decided to establish a "Fire Club" modeled after the Boston example, which group purchased buckets and a fire engine.)
found: History of Volunteer Firefighting WWW Site, July 22, 2002( The mutual fire societies became social as well as protective associations, setting a pattern for organized volunteer firefighting groups which would one day become the backbone of firefighting in America.)
found: Inside UVA Online WWW Site, July 22, 2002(By the eve of the Revolution, these fire clubs and associations in cities throughout the colonies assumed a central place in urban society and politics ... working together, drinking together in taverns and coffeehouses)
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2002-07-22: new
2002-08-30: revised
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