{"id":4244,"date":"2019-02-20T08:06:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:22:31","slug":"bring-out-your-buckets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/bring-out-your-buckets\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Out Your Buckets! &#8211; Hillsborough, 1777"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1777, the state legislature passed an Act for the Regulation of the Town of Hillsborough, which included that every household have two buckets and one ladder, and keep them &#8220;in continual readiness&#8221; in case of fire.<\/p>\n<p>This pre-dates by decades the 1848 references in town minutes to fire equipment. <a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/history\/hillsborough\/\">See that history here<\/a>, by Legeros.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">What other gems can be found in the old session laws, pertaining to our towns and their fire companies or fire departments?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Tool over to Mike&#8217;s page on <a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/history\/laws\/\">historical fire laws<\/a>, to see what he&#8217;s lately found, with excerpts added going farther back in time, now the 1740s forward:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-02-19-hillsboro.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4245\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-02-19-hillsboro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1518\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-02-19-hillsboro.jpg 1518w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-02-19-hillsboro-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-02-19-hillsboro-1024x320.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-02-19-hillsboro-730x228.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1518px) 100vw, 1518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"on\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fbring-out-your-buckets%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4244\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Bring Out Your Buckets! 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