It had two bastions at the westerly angles.
The British garrisoned it continuously from its capture until they removed its guns, August 16th, its wood-work, August 17th, and demolished its magazine, September 12, 1779. It was not garrisoned again during the war. A number of iron six-pounders were dug up inside its walls, by Mr. Giles, when excavating his cellar, about thirty years ago. Two of them are now mounted in a miniature fort on his grounds.
1 Miscalled " Ft. Independence," on Sauthier's and other British maps, an error which has misled some modern writers. The same misnomer has heen ])erpetuated otherwise. Tlie Coast Survey so calls it in a diagram of the triangulation point on its wall. These errors prohably arose from confounding the name " Tetard's Hill," on which Fort Independence stood, with "Tippett's Hill," wheron the fort in question was located.
- This work is yet standing.
KING'S
Number Five was a square redoubt, whose walls are yet standing on the old Tetard farm, a little way north from H. B. Claflin's stal)les. It is about seventy feet square. It was occupied in 1777, and dismantled September 18, 1779.
Number Six stood just west of the present road to Hifrh Bridge, and its site is now occui>icd by a house formerly owned by John B. Haskin.
Number Sercti was on the Cammann place. No trace remains.
Number Eight was on land now owned by H. W. T. Mali and Gustav Schwab. The latter's house occupies part of its site.