Joshua Huddy led from prison to be hanged, 1782 (c1880). Artist: Unknown


Joshua Huddy led from prison to be hanged, 1782 (c1880). Huddy (1735-1782) was the commander of a New Jersey militia unit and a privateer ship in the American Revolutionary War. He was captured and hanged by loyalist forces in retribution for the death of a loyalist refugee, Phillip White, in American custody. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume II, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.


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