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.]
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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 popu- -lated, although at present the villages are larger and much more numerous.