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American Prisoners of the Revolution

by Danske Dandridge

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — Introductory
  4. 4Chapter II — The Riflemen of the Revolution
  5. 5Chapter III — Names of Some of the Prisoners of 1776
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Prisons of New York — Jonathan Gillett
  7. 7Chapter V — William Cunningham, the Provost Marshal
  8. 8Chapter VI — The Case of Jabez Fitch
  9. 9Chapter VII — The Hospital Doctor — A Tory’s Account of New York in…
  10. 10Chapter VIII — The Account of Alexander Graydon
  11. 11Chapter IX — A Foul Page of English History
  12. 12Chapter X — A Boy in Prison
  13. 13Chapter XI — The Newspapers of the Revolution
  14. 14Chapter XII — The Trumbull Papers and Other Sources of Information
  15. 15Chapter XIII — A Journal Kept in the Provost
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Further Testimony of Cruelties Endured by American Pr…
  17. 17Chapter XV — The Old Sugar House — Trinty Churchyard
  18. 18Chapter XVI — The Case of John Blatchford
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Benjamin Franklin and Others on the Subject of Ameri…
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — The Adventures of Andrew Sherburne
  21. 21Chapter XIX — More About the English Prisons — Memoir of Eli Bickfo…
  22. 22Chapter XX — Some Southern Naval Prisoners
  23. 23Chapter XXI — Extracts From Newspapers — Some of the Prison Ships —…
  24. 24Chapter XXII — The Journal of Dr. Elias Cornelius — British Prisons…
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — A Poet on a Prison Ship
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — “There Was a Ship”
  27. 27Chapter XXV — A Description of the Jersey
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — The Experience of Ebenezer Fox
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — The Experience of Ebenezer Fox (Continued)
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — The Case of Christopher Hawkins
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — Testimony of Prisoners on Board the Jersey
  32. 32Chapter XXX — Recollections of Andrew Sherburne
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — Captain Roswell Palmer
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — The Narrative of Captain Alexander Coffin
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — A Wonderful Deliverance
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — The Narrative of Captain Dring
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — The Narrative of Captain Dring (Continued)
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — The Interment of the Dead
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII — Dame Grant and Her Boat
  40. 40Chapter XXXVIII — The Supplies for the Prisoners
  41. 41Chapter XXXIX — Fourth of July on the Jersey
  42. 42Chapter XL — An Attempt to Escape
  43. 43Chapter XLI — The Memorial to General Washington
  44. 44Chapter XLII — The Exchange
  45. 45Chapter XLIII — The Cartel — Captain Dring’s Narrative (Continued)
  46. 46Chapter XLIV — Correspondence of Washington and Others
  47. 47Chapter XLV — General Washington and Rear Admiral Digby — Commissar…
  48. 48Chapter XLVI — Some of the Prisoners on Board the Jersey
  49. 49Conclusion
  50. 50Appendix A
  51. 51Appendix B
  52. 52Appendix C

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