. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. ed, whenshe took the place of the latter as a prison ship. After the warshe was allowed to decay, and sank, but her ribs were visible atlow tide for a score of years. They are now covered by the NavyYard. Thousands of American prisoners were confined in the NorthDutch and Middle Dutch churches of New York, and in the largesugar houses of Rheinlander, Van C
. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. ed, whenshe took the place of the latter as a prison ship. After the warshe was allowed to decay, and sank, but her ribs were visible atlow tide for a score of years. They are now covered by the NavyYard. Thousands of American prisoners were confined in the NorthDutch and Middle Dutch churches of New York, and in the largesugar houses of Rheinlander, Van Cortlandt, and Livingston, andin the provost jail. Their sufferings from lack of air, from neg-lect, and from ill treatment were great, and hundreds died; butthe terrible mortality in the ships, and above all in the Jersey, hasgiven them a name for horrors that has continued to this day. Almost inconceivable as is the statement, in view of the wholenumber of the prisoners, and also of the various places used fortheir confinement, largely, as has been said, on land, it is never-theless believed that in the course of the war more than 11,000American prisoners perished in these fearful hulks. They were Ante. p. 114, Notes 12, 16, 19, THE BRITISH PRISON SHIP JERSEY. IN WHICH MANY YORK PRISONERS WERE CONFINED 1776—1781 YORK COUNTY PRISONERS IN NEW YORK. 311 provided, it is tiue, with three hospital ships, which lay near theJersey, and the sick were removed to them, while the prisonerscould spend a part of the day on deck, where their bedding wasaired. But at sunset, at the cry of Down, Rebels, down, theyhad to go below, where perhaps a thousand might lie in rows, infoul air and perhaps stifling heat. Thus, with fevers andother diseases, the lack of cleanliness, and often bad and scantyfood, and want of proper clothing, the wretched captives lan-guished and died in great numbers. As some prisoners succeededin escaping from the prison ships, the result was that only a fewwere al
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