Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . ppointed, to settle upon an indemnity for the loss in-ciu-red. The houses, gardens, and orchards indicated in this order,were situated both without and within the walls, but all within a shortdistance from them. The owners of houses thus removed were Ger-rit Jansen Eoos, Peter Stoutenberg, Henry Taylor, the LutheranCongregation, Peter Jansen Mesier, Martin Meyer (smith), AugustynHeermans, Lysbet Teysen, Peter Harmensen. The gardens andorchards of Johannes Van Brugh and Sarah Kierstede were alsoincluded. 522 For the purpose o
Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . ppointed, to settle upon an indemnity for the loss in-ciu-red. The houses, gardens, and orchards indicated in this order,were situated both without and within the walls, but all within a shortdistance from them. The owners of houses thus removed were Ger-rit Jansen Eoos, Peter Stoutenberg, Henry Taylor, the LutheranCongregation, Peter Jansen Mesier, Martin Meyer (smith), AugustynHeermans, Lysbet Teysen, Peter Harmensen. The gardens andorchards of Johannes Van Brugh and Sarah Kierstede were alsoincluded. 522 For the purpose of raising funds to indemnify these losses, the proceeds of an extra impost were allowed to the city, viz. : on exports ofbeavers and peltries, two and a half per cent. ; on imports of duffelsand blankets, two per cent. ; on imports of powder, lead, guns,wines, brandies, distilled water, and rum, five per cent. There was no occasion, however, for the use of these defensiveworks, as the city was finally surrendered to the English by treatybetween England and Trii: BLOCK-HOrSE JPT GATIC (foot of PltESKXT WALL STRKICT) , 1674. The walls stood for nearly twenty years afterwards, without ma-terial alteration, viz., until the year 1692, at which period a warexisted between Great Britain and France, and measures were takento renew the dilapidated works. A committee which had been appointed to survey the works aroundthe city, and make an estimate of the expense of repairing them,reported that they had had the assistanr^e of some of the militia 523 captains, and computed the cost of making necessary repairs at £200,exclusive of the cost of great guns, powder, and shot. At this period (1692) all the inhabitants not listed in the trainbands were required to work on the fortifications, rrnder a were erected, as advance works, on the opposite side ofthe valley of the Maidens path. One of these stood near the Gov-ernors garden, at Broadway and the present Fulto
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