ishment, to leave his business and lend a helping hand in building the wall.
THE WALL OF PROTECTION.
The quaint structure was located nearly on the line of the primitive fence, and its length from river to river was estimated at about one hundred and eighty rods. It was built of palisades, twelve feet high and eighteen inches in girth, sharply pointed at the top. Posts seven inches thick were erected at intervals of a rod, to which split rails were nailed two feet below the top. On the inside was a breastwork of earth four feet high, and from three to four feet wide, thrown up from a ditch three feet deep and two wide. At the point where the wall crossed the partially opened road, now Broadway, a huge gate was constructed called the "Land Gate;" and at the junction of Pearl Street, which was then at the edge of the sea, another gate was
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Evert Tesselaer's clerks 200
Adriaen and Johannes Keyser 100
Jacob Backer 150
Nicholas Boodt 100
Isaac de Forest 100
Abram Geenes 100
Jacob Steendam 100
Anthony Clasen 50
Jan Jansen, jr 50
Jan Vinje 50
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Arent Van Hattein 100
Martin Krygier 100
P. L. Van der Grist 100
Maximilian van Gheel 100
Allard Anthony 100
Abram de la Noy 100
Daniel Litschoe 100
Philip Gerardy 50
Egbert Van Borssum 100
Heindrick Schip 100
