An Appeal to the Congress of the United States From the Society of Old Brooklynites
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Excerpt from An Appeal to the Congress of the United States From the Society of Old Brooklynites: For the Erection of a Monument Over the Remains of 11, 500 Prisoners Who Died on Board the British Prison-Ships During the Revolutionary War To The Senate and House of representatives of the United States now assembled in the First Session of the Fifty-First Congress. Your petitioners, an incorporated society of the City of Brooklyn, under the title of the "Society of Old Brooklynites," respectfully inform you that they presented the following petition to the Fiftieth Congress: That the remains of more than 12,000 martyrs to the cause of liberty lie entombed in this city, who died during our Revolutionary war on board the prison ships of the British at the Wallabout, and which were buried on our shores during that memorable struggle, many of which were, by the action of the waves, washed out of their shallow graves - their bones scattered along the beach, exposed to the Summer´s sun and winter´s storms, until the year 1808, when the Tammany Society or Columbian Order, of the City of New York, had them collected and buried with imposing ceremonies, in which the governors of several States, mayors of cities, and civil, military and ecclesiastical dignitaries from all parts of the country took part. The place of burial was on Jackson street, in this city, and the tomb, a temporary wooden structure, in which they were placed, became so dilapidated by reason of changes made in the surroundings and from natural decay, that the sacred remains were again exposed to the gaze of the multitude, until the Park Commissioners of this city, with the sanction of the city government, prepared with great care and expense a permanent and imperishable tomb for their reception on the historic ground of Fort Greene, a charming elevation in Washington Park, in this city, overlooking the scene of their sufferings and death - to which the sacred remains were carefully removed and deposited. Those devoted patriots, from every one of the original thirteen States, were prisoners of war, taken by the British army and navy, and numbered more than were killed in all the battles, both by sea and land, in that long and desperate struggle for freedom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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