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Chapter 6 - THE CASE OF JABEZ FITCH

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lution, we will endeavor to follow some chronological order, so that we may carry the story on month by month and year by year until that last day of the British

Fitch, who was captured on the 27th of August, of that year. While a prisoner he c

liberal of their Curses and Execrations: they were also not a little Noisy in their Insults, but clap'd their hands and used other peculiar gestures in so Extraordinary a Manner yet they were in some Danger of leaping overboard in this surprising Extacy." On arriving at the Pacific, a very large transport ship, they were told that all officers and men together were to be shut down b

our people lay, telling us at ye same time with many Curses yt in Case of any Disturbance or the least noise in ye Night, they were to be Imediately fired on ye Damned Rebels." When allowed to come on deck "we were in

the Ships Crew....On the 31st the Commissary of Prisoners came on Board and took down the names, etc, of the prisoners....he told us Colonel Clark and many other Officers were confined at Flatbush. On Sunday, Se

fellow. * * * When we first met on board the Mentor we spent a considerable time in Relating to each other ye particular Circumstances of our first being Taken, and also ye various Treatment with which we met on yt occasion, nor was this a disagreeable Entertainment in our Melancholy Situation. * * * Many of the officers and men were almost Destitute of Clothes, several having neither Britches, Stockings or Shoes, many of them when first taken were stripped entirely naked. C

them to Shoot at for Diversion or Practice, by which he Received two severe wounds, in the neck and ar

ucted us to a very large house on the West side of Broadway in the corner south of Warren Street near Bridewell, where we were assigned a small ya

ple of this City were so good as to afford us very considerable Relief on this account, but it was ye poor and those who were in low circumstances only who were thoughtful of our Necessities, and p

fined in Ye City Hall. Colonel Selden died the Fryday after we arrived. He was Buried in the New Brick Churchyard, and most

isoners were not brought to New York until the Monday following. They were then confined in the Bridewell, as the City Jail was then called, and in several churches. Some of them were soon afterwards sent on board a prison ship, which was probably the Whitby. "A number of the officers were sent

itants were denied admittanc

veral Churches and other large Buildings and although we had often Received Intelligence from them with ye most Deplorable Representation of their Miserable Situation, yet when we came to visit them we found their sufferings vastly superior to wh

w England Farmer would have provided for his Cattle, and although ye Commissary pretended to furnish them with two thirds of ye allowance of ye King's Troops, yet they were cheated out of one half of that. They were many times entirely neglected from Day to Day, and

as to provide them relief, paid very little or no attention to their unparalleled sufferings. This house I understand was under ye Superintendence of one Dr. Dibuke * * * who had been at least once convicted of stealing (in Europe) and h

about one half had already perished in Prison. I was afterwards informed that the Winds being unfavourable and their accommodations and provisions on board ye Ship being very similar to w

yt when ye Officers were Removed over into Long Island in the latter part of January there remained but very

atment of the prisoners. Governor Scheene was said to have visited the prisoners at the Churches and manifested great

hteen months. After the Revolution he

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Contents

Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTORY Chapter 2 - THE RIFLEMEN OF THE REVOLUTION Chapter 3 - NAMES OF SOME OF THE PRISONERS OF 1776 Chapter 4 - THE PRISONS OF NEW YORK-JONATHAN GILLETT Chapter 5 - WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, THE PROVOST MARSHAL Chapter 6 - THE CASE OF JABEZ FITCH Chapter 7 - THE HOSPITAL DOCTOR-A TORY'S ACCOUNT OF NEW YORK IN 1777-ETHAN ALLEN'S Chapter 8 - THE ACCOUNT OF ALEXANDER GRAYDON Chapter 9 - A FOUL PAGE OF ENGLISH HISTORY Chapter 10 - A BOY IN PRISON Chapter 11 - THE NEWSPAPERS OF THE REVOLUTION
Chapter 12 - THE TRUMBULL PAPERS AND OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Chapter 13 - A JOURNAL KEPT IN THE PROVOST
Chapter 14 - FURTHER TESTIMONY OF CRUELTIES ENDURED BY AMERICAN PRISONERS
Chapter 15 - THE OLD SUGAR HOUSE-TRINTY CHURCHYARD
Chapter 16 - THE CASE OF JOHN BLATCHFORD
Chapter 17 - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND OTHERS ON THE SUBJECT OF AMERICAN PRISONERS
Chapter 18 - THE ADVENTURES OF ANDREW SHERBURNE
Chapter 19 - MORE ABOUT THE ENGLISH PRISONS-MEMOIR OF ELI BICKFORD-CAPTAIN FANNING
Chapter 20 - SOME SOUTHERN NAVAL PRISONERS
Chapter 21 - EXTRACTS FROM NEWSPAPERS-SOME OF THE PRISON SHIPS-CASE OF CAPTAIN
Chapter 22 - THE JOURNAL OF DR. ELIAS CORNELIUS-BRITISH PRISONS IN THE SOUTH
Chapter 23 - A POET ON A PRISON SHIP
Chapter 24 - "THERE WAS A SHIP"
Chapter 25 - A DESCRIPTION OF THE JERSEY
Chapter 26 - THE EXPERIENCE OF EBENEZER FOX. -
Chapter 27 - THE EXPERIENCE OF EBENEZER FOX (CONTINUED)
Chapter 28 - THE CASE OF CHRISTOPHER HAWKINS
Chapter 29 - TESTIMONY OF PRISONERS ON BOARD THE JERSEY
Chapter 30 - RECOLLECTIONS OF ANDREW SHERBURNE
Chapter 31 - CAPTAIN ROSWELL PALMER
Chapter 32 - THE NARRATIVE OF CAPTAIN ALEXANDER COFFIN
Chapter 33 - A WONDERFUL DELIVERANCE
Chapter 34 - THE NARRATIVE OF CAPTAIN DRING
Chapter 35 - THE NARRATIVE OF CAPTAIN DRING (CONTINUED)
Chapter 36 - THE INTERMENT OF THE DEAD
Chapter 37 - DAME GRANT AND HER BOAT
Chapter 38 - THE SUPPLIES FOR THE PRISONERS
Chapter 39 - FOURTH OF JULY ON THE JERSEY
Chapter 40 - AN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE
Chapter 41 - THE MEMORIAL TO GENERAL WASHINGTON
Chapter 42 - THE EXCHANGE
Chapter 43 - THE CARTEL-CAPTAIN DRING'S NARRATIVE (CONTINUED)
Chapter 44 - CORRESPONDENCE OF WASHINGTON AND OTHERS
Chapter 45 - GENERAL WASHINGTON AND REAR ADMIRAL DIGBY-COMMISSARIES SPROAT AND
Chapter 46 - SOME OF THE PRISONERS ON BOARD THE JERSEY
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