-- The Refugees frequently came up as high as this within half a mile of the fort. Once they took two horses and a pair of oxen from my father who got one of the horses back at the end of several years.

* Major Davenport would not consent to attack the enemy on their retreat to their shipping. He said it would be too hazardous, and he would not expose his men. He was too prudent, or too timorous for an officer. (Daniel Lockwood)

There were several able officers at different times under General Waterbury at Fort Nonsense. One, I think, was Colonel Meigs.

In the times of the Revolutionary war there was a greater number of Farm houses than there are now, and the open country was more thickly populated, although at present the villages are larger and much more numerous.

Nov. 17th Abraham Reynolds of North Street Connecticut: "I was born in 1772, and remember when Col. Wells and some of his officers and men were surprised and taken off by Major Huggeford in 1780. I think there were not more than one or two Americans Killed

In the times of the Revolutionary war there was a greater number of Farm houses than there are now, and the open country was more thickly populated, although at present the villages are larger and much more numerous. Nov. 17th Abraham Reynolds of North Street Connecticut: "I was born in 1772, and remember when Col. Wells and some of his officers and men were surprised and taken off by Major Huggeford in 1780. I think there were not more than one or two Americans Killed