Liberty Street Sugar House was a tall, narrow building five stories in height, and with dismal underground dungeons. In this gloomy abode jail fever was ever present. In the hot weather of July, 1777, companies of twenty at a time would be sent out for half an hour's outing, in the court yard. Inside groups of six stood for ten minutes at a time at the windows for a breath of air.
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It is with no desire to excite animosity against a people whose blood is in our veins that we publish this volume of facts about some of the Americans, seamen and soldiers, who were so unfortunate as to fall into the hands of the enemy during the period of the Revolution. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Long Island, Fort Washington, General Howe, General Washington, Old Jersey, New London, David Sproat, Henry Bedinger, Good Hope, North River, Admiral Digby, Captain Dring, New Jersey, Ethan Allen, New England, United States, Captain Aborn, General Robertson, New Utrecht, Rhode Island, West Indies, Berkeley County, Captain Whipple, East Indies New!
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It is with no desire to excite animosity against a people whose blood is in our veins that we publish this volume of facts about some of the Americans, seamen and soldiers, who were so unfortunate as to fall into the hands of the enemy during the period of the Revolution. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Long Island, Fort Washington, General Howe, General Washington, Old Jersey, New London, David Sproat, Henry Bedinger, Good Hope, North River, Admiral Digby, Captain Dring, New Jersey, Ethan Allen, New England, United States, Captain Aborn, General Robertson, New Utrecht, Rhode Island, West Indies, Berkeley County, Captain Whipple, East Indies New!
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- Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Early American Studies) by Paul A. Gilje in Back Matter
- The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley: The Jersey Dutch and the Neutral Ground, 1775-1783 by Adrian C. Leiby in Back Matter
- American Revolutionary Diaries by William S. Thomas on page 12
- Daily Life During the American Revolution (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) by Dorothy Denneen Volo on page 330
- The Life of John Marshall, Volume 1 by Albert J. Beveridge in Back Matter
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