The tide was down and the British vessels aground so that they couldn't bring their guns to bear. [X] 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.
[X] 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.)
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There was a Colonel Hobby who lived at Horseneck. Fort Nonsense was short of half a mile to the east of Mahanus river about one mile and a half north of ^the old Mah[anus] old Post road, two and a half miles north of the Turnpike road, and about three miles north west from Stamford Village. The offi- -cers had their Marqueés, and the ammunition was kept within the fort. The two redoubts or Bastions in the West were of stone, and the two on the east of fascines filled in with earth." [I went to see Fort Nonsense in company with Deacon Daniel Lockwood and David Miller, and viewed from the road such traces of the remains as exist. It was situated on the east side of the Mahanus river and the west side of the road and contained within its bounds more than an acre of land. - J. M. M. Novr. 15 1849.]