As blurted during the Sugar House Consulting Party Meeting on Jan. 18, 2008, to Torben Jenk who was sharing historical evidence for British Army Fort No. 1 (1777) as printed in John Fanning Watson’s ‘Annals of Philadelphia’ (1830):
“The British redoubts remained til lately — one on the Delaware bank in a line with the stone-bridge street — then no houses were near it; now it is all built up, and streets are run where none were seen.”
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