The Hand-in-Hand Fire-Club.
Subtitle: These presents witness, that we the subscribers, reposing a special trust and confidence in each other's friendship, do hereby severally promise, and unanimously agree together, as follows ... That if it shall please God to permit fire to break out in Newport ... that we will then be aiding and assisting to each other ... In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands, this thirtieth day of December, Anno Domini, 1749 ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 40558.
Publisher: Printed by James Franklin
Published: 1750
Place of publication: [Newport, R.I
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Fire prevention -- Societies, etc.; Fire prevention -- Rhode Island -- Newport.; Newport (R.I.) -- Fires and fire prevention.
Other titles: These presents witness, that we the subscribers ...
Notes: Eleven numbered articles.

Imprint supplied by Alden. Ann Franklin was a silent partner with her son, James, in 1750.

Text in two columns; at foot are the names of Matthew Borden and twenty-eight other subscribers, printed in four columns.

Bristol B1486

Shipton & Mooney 40558

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 97

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40558).