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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 twenty-sixth day of September, Anno Dom. 1752. ...

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Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 40633.
Subjects:	Fire prevention > Societies, etc. Fire prevention > Rhode Island > Newport. Newport (R.I.) > Fires and fire prevention. Broadsides.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

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