Gibbstown Fire Co

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On March 12, 1900 ten men banded together and established a Charter for the Gibbstown Fire Company. "We, William A. Gardner, John H. Mitchell, George Munyan, Frank Daniels, Charles Snyder, Samuel Munyan, William B. Tussey, Charles Wolfe, Robert M. Carter, and William H. Mitchell, all of Gibbstown, in the Township of Greenwich, County of Gloucester, and State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that we nave associated ourselves together for the purpose of protecting life and property from fire, and, having published notice of our intention to become incorporated under and in accordance with the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, entitled An "act for the incorporation of fire companies," approved April 21 sI, A.D. 1876, and calling a meeting for that purpose to be held at the building of the fire company in Gibbstown, County of Gloucester and State aforesaid, at eight 0' clock, on the evening of the twelfth day of March, A.D. 1900, and requesting the members of the said Association to be present thereat, notice of the same being published in the Paulsboro Press, a newspaper printed and published in this county, and circulating in the neighborhood where such company was intended to be formed, for two weeks prior to this date of said meeting, (the said notice being published two consecutive times immediately preceding the date of said meeting, to wit: once on March 2d, and once on March 9th, A.D. 1900, an affidavit of the publication of which is...

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