. King's handbook of Boston harbor. s became a famous British 1799 the Duke of Rochefoucauld-Liancourt reported that he had been AVArGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON I/ARBOR. 143 informed by Gen. Knox, late Secretary of War, that Congress had appro-priated #100,000 to fortify these islands, but that the State of Massachu-setts had forbidden the prosecution of the work. From 1785 until 1805the criminals of the State were confined on the island. Among these wasStephen Burroughs, the quaintest of rascals; none of the county jailsbeing thought strong enough to hold him. There were at first
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. s became a famous British 1799 the Duke of Rochefoucauld-Liancourt reported that he had been AVArGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON I/ARBOR. 143 informed by Gen. Knox, late Secretary of War, that Congress had appro-priated #100,000 to fortify these islands, but that the State of Massachu-setts had forbidden the prosecution of the work. From 1785 until 1805the criminals of the State were confined on the island. Among these wasStephen Burroughs, the quaintest of rascals; none of the county jailsbeing thought strong enough to hold him. There were at first 16 prisonershere, many of them hardened and desperate criminals. Burroughs quicklyeffected his escape, with seven companions, by digging through the wallof the casemate, and carrying off the Castle boat and the sentry whoshould have guarded it. They were all re-captured on shore, and received100 lashes each. At a later day, when there were 45 prisoners in thebombproof, he formed a plan to overpower the garrison, overawe the town ». Castle William Last Century: with the artillery of the fort, capture and heavily arm the best vessel inthe harbor, and sail away to some foreign land, after blowing up the attacked and dispersed the main guard single-handed; but hisfellow-convicts feared to follow him, and the brave fellow was stricken down,ironed, and lashed. He remained in duress until the year 1788. From 1799-1801 the Castle was used as a place of captivity for soldiersand sailors of France, with which power we were then at war. Sometimesthere were as many as 250 of these merry fellows here at once, especiallyafter the capture of the war-vessel Berceauj but the garrison found no suchdifficulty with them as with the truculent criminals of Massachusetts. In 1798 Massachusetts ceded Castle Island to the United States; andwhen President John Adams visited the island, a year later, the little fortress 144 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. was christened Fort Independen
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