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VIEW OF FEDERAL HALL AND PART OF BROAD STREET. 1796.

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Lambert Cadwallader,
James Schureman,

Thomas Sinnickson,
George Clymer,

Thomas Fitzsimmons,

Thomas Hartley,

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F.A. Muhlenberg, Speak'r, At Rev. Mr. Kunzie's,

Peter Muhlenberg,

Thomas Scott,

Henry Wynkoop,

24 Chatham row.

At Rev. Mr. Kunzie's, 24 Chatham row. At Mr. Huck's, cor. Smith and Wall sts. At Mr. Vandolson's, near Bear Market, No. 19 Wall street.

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The site of the old City Hall having been divided up into lots was sold in 1816, bringing about an average of $8,000 per lot. Plain brick buildings were erected on the site, one of which, on the corner of Nassau street, was occupied for some years as a bookstore and reading-room, and afterward was used as the Customhouse. The present Treasury building, originally erected for a custom-house, now occupies the site.

The title to the land on which the City Hall was built was at an early period in dispute It has been mentioned that Governor Dongan sold the frontage along the northerly side of Wall street to Messrs. De Peyster and Bayard. This property being, as the deed of partition states, "convenient for the building of houses," was divided between the owners in 1718, when a map was made.

A few years previously to this partition (viz., in 1713) a suit in ejectment was brought by the owners against the Corporation to recover certain of the lands occupied by the City Hall. It is believed it was amicably adjusted by the claimants relinquishing, although the evidence does not appear in the public records.

The first sale by De Peyster and Bayard of any part of their property was in 1701, when they conveyed the lot on the north

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THE CITY HALL IN WALL STREET, AS ENLARGED FOR THE CAPITOL.

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