American Prisoners of the Revolution
American Prisoners of the Revolution, published in 1911, gathers the scattered evidence of what happened to Americans captured by the British between 1776 and 1783, chiefly in New York. Danske Dandridge, whose grandfather had been a boy prisoner, abridges and reprints the narratives of Jabez Fitch, Alexander Graydon, Ebenezer Fox, Christopher Hawkins, Andrew Sherburne and Captain Thomas Dring, together with newspaper extracts, the Trumbull papers and the correspondence of Washington and Franklin, to document the Provost under William Cunningham, the sugar house prisons, the churches used as jails and above all the prison ship Jersey in Wallabout Bay, where thousands died. An appendix lists some eight thousand names of men held on the Jersey. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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