fort-gate

Updated: June 8, 2025

Whether he had threatened to do so by a message, we do not know; at any rate, the people either suspected his determination or got wind of it, for during the day an unknown person handed in at the fort-gate a note, telling him if he did, the people would hang him, like Porteus of Edinburgh, on a sign-post.

Joel Tyler Headley - The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873