The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877Stewart, George
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The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877
Stewart, George
Saint John (N.B.) -- Fire, 1877
£ s. d.
"Gabriel G. Ludlow (Mayor) 10 0 0
Ward Chipman (Recorder) 10 0 0
Jonathan Bliss (Atty.-General) 10 0 0
James Putnam (Judge) 10 0 0
Christopher Billop 5 0 0
Zeph Kingsley 10 0 0
Samuel Randall 10 0 0
Gilbert & Hanford 10 0 0
Isaac Bell 5 0 0
Robert Parker 10 0 0
BENEDICT ARNOLD 10 0 0
William Wyly 10 0 0
Mark Wright 3 0 0
C. C. Hall & Co. 5 0 0
William Pagan 10 0 0
John Colwell 5 0 0
Thomas Bean 10 0 0
Francis Gilbert 5 0 0
Samuel Hallet 3 0 0
William Hazen 10 0 0
James Ruon 5 0 0
John Califf 4 13 4
Isaac Lawton 5 0 0
Samuel Mills 5 0 0
Paul Bedell 5 0 0
William Wanton (Collector Custom) 10 0 0
Adino Paddock, M. D. 5 0 0
McCall & Codner 10 0 0
Thomas Horsfield 10 0 0
John McGeorge }
Thos. Elliot } 10 0 0
William Bainy }
Thompson & Reed 10 0 0
Christopher Lowe, (King's Printer) 5 0 0
W. S. Olive, (Sheriff) 5 0 0
Wm. Whittaker 5 0 0
Peter Quin 3 0 0
Charles Warner 5 0 0
Abiather Camp 5 0 0
James Peters 5 0 0
Daniel Michean 3 0 0
Fitch Rogers 5 0 0
Munson Jarvis 5 0 0
Nehemiah Rodgers 5 0 0
Edward Sands 3 0 0."
On the 2nd February, 1786, the corporation paid Peter Fleming £136 6s.
8d. for two fire engines. These must have proved ineffectual, for the
reader will notice that the above loan was made up hardly a year
afterward, and the present sum was raised for the special purpose of
buying London engines, and sinking wells.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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