The magazine of American history with notes and queries . a Company to keep a watchful eye on the English inhabitants of North America, lest they incline totake a hand in the European was, therefore, in a measure, pre-pared for this new alarm, and has-tened to call a joint meeting of theprovincial council and city magis-trates, to consider the perils of the sit-uation, and agree upon some energeticcourse to pursue in the meeting promptly resolved thats£ the citizens should mount guard everynight, and that the fort should berepaired. But the citadel was notlarge enough to
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . a Company to keep a watchful eye on the English inhabitants of North America, lest they incline totake a hand in the European was, therefore, in a measure, pre-pared for this new alarm, and has-tened to call a joint meeting of theprovincial council and city magis-trates, to consider the perils of the sit-uation, and agree upon some energeticcourse to pursue in the meeting promptly resolved thats£ the citizens should mount guard everynight, and that the fort should berepaired. But the citadel was notlarge enough to contain all the in-habitants of the city in the event ofa siege, therefore it was decided to wall the city in ; and to de-fray the expenses the city government proposed to borrow some sixthousand guilders (or $2,000) from the principal citizens of the littleminiature city, to be repaid by a tax on the commonalty. Withintwo days upward of five thousand guilders had been subscribed ; * andevery able-bodied man was required, under penalty of fine, or ban-. DUTCH MUG OF 1653. * The names of the subscribers to this fund, with the amount contributed by each, will interestthe antiquarian, as well as the numerous descendants of those leading men of 1653, who investedin the original wall : (Gl) The Honble Cornells Werckhoven 200 Johannes de Peyster 100 Johannes Van Brugh 200 Johannes Van Beech 200 Cornells Steenroych 200 Govert Loockermans 150 Oloff S. Van Cortlandt 150 Jacob Schelling 200 Pieter Prins 100 (Gl) Antonie Van Hardenburg 200 Johannes Nevius 100 Gulian Ways 200 Pieter Bays 100 Paulus Schrichs 100 Jacob Gerrits Strycker 200 Francois Fyn 100 Matheus de Vos 100 Adriaen Blommaert 100 WALL STREET IN HISTORY 309
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