pepperfields

Updated: May 19, 2025

But one American prisoner escaped from the Island of Sumatra, where he had been employed in the pepperfields belonging to the East India Company. His story is eventful, and we will give the reader an abridgement of it, as it was told by himself, in his narrative, first published in a New England newspaper. John Blatchford was born at Cape Ann, Mass., in the year 1762.

Danske Dandridge - American Prisoners of the Revolution