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 hereunto annexed and made a part hereof,) the following is a copy of said notice:

The members of the Gibbstown Fire Association are requested to meet at the fire company's building in Gibbstown, County of Gloucester, and the State of New Jersey, at eight o'clock on the evening of the twelfth of March, A.D. 1900. The object of the meeting is to incorporate the said Association, according to 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 being now assembled at the time and place aforesaid, in pursuance of said notice, we do assume and choose as our corporate name "The Gibbstown Fire Company, of Gibbstown, New Jersey," and declare the object of such Association to be the protection of life and property from fire in the village of Gibbstown, County of Gloucester , State of New Jersey, and that such Association is to continue from March 12th, A.D. 1900, until March 12th, A.D. 1950." From this nucleus grew the organization that is today's Gibbstown Volunteer Fire Company, No. 1, its object still the protection of life and property from fire. While we celebrate our one-hundredth anniversary based on the March 12, 1900 date, the first recorded minutes in our organization's files are from a meeting held on November 20, 1899. However , at this meeting, minutes from the previous meeting were read and approved. Progress was reported on finding a place to put buckets and ladders and a Committee was formed to procure the buckets and ladders. Therefore, we assume that conception occurred prior to November 20 but birth was on March 12,1900.