. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . id d cf ^ cf c> df; i .cf ,* d c^ ^ cJ o* 90 The Worlds Greatest Street rise, the gates were unlocked by the schout and the keysreturned again to the fort. It was here on the lower end of the Fields, in fullview of his own country-house, that Jacob Leisler andhis son-in-law Milborne were executed on a gallowsespecially erected for the purpose. The day was inMay, 1691, and a cold, drizzling, spring rain prevailed—a fitting day for such a fell purpose. The place of public execution
. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . id d cf ^ cf c> df; i .cf ,* d c^ ^ cJ o* 90 The Worlds Greatest Street rise, the gates were unlocked by the schout and the keysreturned again to the fort. It was here on the lower end of the Fields, in fullview of his own country-house, that Jacob Leisler andhis son-in-law Milborne were executed on a gallowsespecially erected for the purpose. The day was inMay, 1691, and a cold, drizzling, spring rain prevailed—a fitting day for such a fell purpose. The place of public execution was removed from thevicinity of the fort to the Fields in 1725, and a gallowsstood until 1755 not far from the corner of Chambersand Chatham streets. Many of the victims of thenegro plot of 1741 were executed here, some of thembeing burned to death. A powder-house was the firstpublic building on the Commons—a safe place, as it wasso far removed from neighbors in the event of an ex-plosion. It was placed where the old Hall of Recordsstood for so many years, opposite the Brooklyn Bridge,but it was removed in 1728 to an island in the 1742
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