American Prisoners of the RevolutionGenealogical Publishing Com, 2009 - 518 էջ This is the definitive work on Americans taken prisoner during the Revolutionary War. The bulk of the book is devoted to personal accounts, many of them moving, of the conditions endured by U.S. prisoners at the hands of the British, as preserved in journals or diaries kept by physicians, ships' captains, and the prisoners themselves. Of greater genealogical interest is the alphabetical list of 8,000 men who were imprisoned on the British vessel "The Old Jersey", which the author copied from the papers of the British War Department and incorporated in the appendix to the work. Also included is a Muster Roll of Captain Abraham Shepherd's Company of Virginia Riflemen and a section on soldiers of the Pennsylvania Flying Camp who perished in prison, 1776-1777. |
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NAMES OF SOME OF THE PRISONERS | 20 |
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM THE PROVOST | 33 |
THE HOSPITAL DOCTORA TORYS | 55 |
THE ACCOUNT OF ALEXANDER GRAY | 69 |
A FOUL PAGE OF ENGLISH HISTORY | 77 |
THE NEWSPAPERS OF THE REVOLU | 90 |
THE TRUMBULL PAPERS AND OTHER | 99 |
THE CASE OF CHRISTOPHER HAWKINS | 280 |
TESTIMONY OF PRISONERS ON BOARD | 294 |
CAPTAIN ROSWELL PALMER | 305 |
THE NARRATIVE OF CAPTAIN ALEX | 311 |
A WONDERFUL DELIVERANCE | 322 |
THE NARRATIVE OF CAPTAIN DRING | 332 |
CONTINUED | 344 |
THE INTERMENT OF THE DEAD | 353 |
A JOURNAL KEPT IN THE PROVOST | 112 |
FURTHER TESTIMONY OF CRUELTIES | 123 |
CASE OF JOHN BLATCHFORD | 138 |
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND OTHERS | 161 |
BURNE | 174 |
SOME SOUTHERN NAVAL PRISON | 186 |
EXTRACTS FROM NEWSPAPERSSOME | 192 |
THE JOURNAL OF DR ELIAS CORNE | 208 |
THE EXPERIENCE OF EBENEZER | 254 |
CONTINUED | 269 |
DAME GRANT AND HER BOAT | 360 |
THE SUPPLIES FOR THE PRISONERS | 362 |
THE Memorial to General WasH | 383 |
THE CartelCapTAIN DRINGS Nar | 394 |
GENERAL WASHINGTON AND REAR | 424 |
SOME OF THE PRISONERS ON BOARD | 432 |
CONCLUSION | 446 |
APPENDIX B THE PRISON SHIP MARTYRS OF | 492 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 503 |
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