We see notices like the following of insurance offices; but they were principally for marine risks, as not many fire risks were taken before the beginning of the present century.
Hurd's Inſurance-Office,
At the Bunch of Grapes, State-Street,
BOSTON,
Open at all hours of buſineſs, where Policies of Inſurance are underwritten upon the moſt moderate premiums; and the Gentlemen forming this Inſurance Company, whoſe names are inſerted in each Policy, having eſtabliſhed adequate Funds for the ready payment of ſuch loſſes as may happen, hereby notify, that buſineſs will be done with all poſſible attention, diſpatch and punctuality, by
JOHN HURD,
(Inſurance Broker.)
April 8, 1784.
THIS is to inform all Gentlemen in Trade,
That
THE INSURANCE OFFICE