The Wallabout Prison Ships
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Excerpt from The Wallabout Prison Ships: 1776-1783 Research work in local history, extended over a period of more than a fourth of a century, has often brought before the writer contradictory statements regarding the Wallabout Prisonships. During all these years, whenever there had been occasion to mention Wallabout Bay, he disposed of the matter by stating "this is the place where the Prison-ships were stationed during the Revolutionary War." Finally, however, his interest was aroused by reading again and again the statements of other writers, and he set out to search among the oldest available sources for original records. Not taking the judgment of later writers, he gathered the fragments, in a similar way as they had done, hoping thus to be enabled to get a clearer vision of the case. He soon found that the earlier writers could not be considered impartial, as their families, almost without an exception, had had members among the prisoners in the New York City Prisons or else on these Prison ships. They were human and could not forget the misery which their kinsmen had endured. But they were also honest enough to mention such facts which would throw kindlier lights upon this dark scene, and, further, often expressed their own doubts as to the correctness of some statements, which they were forced to incorporate into their narratives. As these writers, without exception, have condemned the Prison ships, it would be wasting time to quote each one separately. After almost one and a half centuries have since rolled by, it may be well to look into the case once more, from our 20th century point of view, making use of all sources now at our command. We may today better under stand the causes of some happenings which appeared to the unfortunate prisoners to be intended cruelty. We further have the benefit of the records compiled in later years, scanty though they be. 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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