"Complaints have been made by the inhabitants situated near the Mill Pond (on the Gowanus) that some of the soldiers come there to go swimming in the open view of the women and that they come out of the water and run to the houses naked with a design to insult and wound the modesty of female decency" Major General Nathaneal Greene, American Continental Army , 1776 as quoted in John J. Gallagher's "The Battle of Brooklyn 1776" 1995 Swim wear available from http://www.cafepress.com/gowanus 
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