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 tenth day of November, Anno Domini 1726. And in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord King George, over Great-Britain, &c. Reprinted in October, 1750.