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Subtitle: You are hereby warned to attend the working of the engine called the Hancock, on the first Mondays of the seven following months, viz ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42028
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1773
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Fire departments; Fire engines; Fires
Notes: Presumably referring to the fire engine, called Hancock No. 10, which was imported from England and presented to Boston by John Hancock on May 6, 1772. Cf. Brayley, A.W. A complete history of the Boston fire department ... Boston, 1889, p. 79. It is likely that the blank forms announcing practice schedules were printed in 1773, after a company was formed and the engine permanently stationed.

Printed area measures 8.0 x 10.4 cm.

Bristol B3104

Shipton & Mooney 42028

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1508