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Rh, to leave his business and lend a helping hand in building the wall.

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

(Gl) 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 (Gl) 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