prisons-ships

Updated: July 3, 2025

He says: "The subject of the naval prisoners, and of the British prisons-ships, stationed at the Wallabout during the Revolution, is one which cannot be passed by in silence. From printed journals, published in New York at the close of the war, it appeared that 11,500 American prisoners had died on board the prison ships.

Danske Dandridge - American Prisoners of the Revolution