American Prisoners of the Revolution
By Danske Dandridge. Reprinted for the web.
"American Prisoners Of The Revolution" is the definitive work on the American Prisoners of the Revolutionary War. The bulk of the book is devoted to personal accounts, of the conditions endured by United States prisoners at the hands of the British, as preserved in journals or diaries kept by physicians, ships' captains, and the prisoners themselves. Titles of genealogical interest is the alphabetical list of 8,000 men who were imprisoned on the British vessel The Old Jersey, which was copied from the papers of the British War Department and incorporated in the appendix. 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.
- Preface
- Introductory
- The Riflemen of the Revolution
- Names of Some of the Prisoners of 1776
- The Prisoners of New York--Jonathan Gillett
- William Cunningham, the Provost Marshal
- The Case of Jabez Fitch
- The Hospital Doctor--A Tory's Account of New York in 1777--Ethan Allen's Account of the Prisoners
- The Account of Alexander Graydon
- A Foul Page of English History
- A Boy in Prison
- The Newspapers of the Revolution
- The Trumbull Papers and Other Sources of Information
- A Journal Kept in the Provost
- Further Testimony of Cruelties Endured by American Prisoners
- The Old Sugar House--Trinity Churchyard
- Case of John Blatchford
- Benjamin Franklin and Others on the Subject of American Prisoners
- The Adventures of Andrew Sherburne
- More about the English Prisons--Memoir of Eli Bickford--Captain Fanning
- Some Southern Naval Prisoners
- Extracts from Newspapers--Some of the Prison Ships--Case of Captain Birdsall
- The Journal of Dr. Elias Cornelius--British Prisons in the South
- A Poet on a Prison Ship
- "There was a Ship"
- A Description of the Jersey
- The Expierence of Ebenezer Fox
- The Expierence of Ebenezer Fox (Continued)
- The Case of Christopher Hawkins
- Testimony of Prisoners on Board the Jersey
- Recollections of Andrew Sherburne
- Captain Roswell Palmer
- The Narrative of Captain Alexander Coffin
- A Wonderful Deliverance
- The Narrative of Captain Dring
- The Narrative of Captain Dring (Continued)
- The Interment of the Dead
- Dame Grant and Her Boat
- The Supples for the Prisoners
- Fourth of July on the Jersey
- An Attempt to Escape
- The Memorial to General Washington
- The Exchange
- The Cartel--Captain Dring's Narrative (Continued)
- Correspondence of Washington and Others
- General Washington and Rear Admiral Digby--Commissaries Sproat and Skinner
- Some of the Prisoners on Board the Jersey
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. List of 8,000 Men Who Were Prisoners on Board the Old Jersey
- Appendix B. The Prison Ship Martyrs of the Revolution, and an Unpublished Diary of One of Them, William Slade, New Canaan, Conn., Later of Cornwall, Vt.
- Appendix C. Bibliography