The Providence Mutual Fire Insurance Company Revenue and Competitors

Chartered by the General Assembly under the laws of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations on October 27, 1800, The Providence Mutual Fire Insurance Company was founded by more than one hundred concerned private citizens of Providence as the "Fire Society." The founding fathers, many of whom are immortalized in early history books and on Providence's street signs today, joined together to establish New England's first fire insurance company "for our own mutual security, for the common security and advantage of our neighbors and fellow citizens, and with a view to promote the insurance of houses and other property, from loss by fire, upon the most equal terms, and without any view of private or separate gain or interest. . . It is therefore of the greatest importance to the happiness and security of private families that their property may be insured against fire."