Download or read book Recollections of Life on the Prison Ship Jersey written by Thomas Dring and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections of Life on the Prison Ship Jersey publishes for the first time the complete text of Thomas Dring's handwritten manuscript, a major primary-source document, in which he describes the horrible conditions, treatment by guards, and experiences that he and others endured during captivity. The book is a plea not to forget but instead to remember the inhumanity of the captors and the sacrifices of the captives--a message that continues to resonate today. Editor David Swain has provided an introductory essay and extensive notes that contain background information and historical documentation to accompany and illuminate the original manuscript.
Download or read book Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship Taken and Prepared for Publication from the Original Manuscript of the Late Captain Thomas Dring of Providence R I One of the Prisoners written by Albert Greene and published by Pierides Press. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These vivid recollections of life on a prison ship during the American Revolution were written by a colonist, who, at the age of 25, was taken prisoner by the British and placed on The Jersey, a prison ship docked at what is now the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The detail of his captivity and the depravity of the conditions illustrate the horrors associated with the Revolutionary War. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pierides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include: General Description of the Jersey Prison-Ship - References to the Plates - Our Capture - The First Night on Board - The First Day - The Gun Room and Messes - The Cook's Quarters - Our Situation - The Working Party - The Hospital Ships and Nurses - The Interment of the Dead - The Crew of "The Chance" - The Marine Guard - "Dame Grant" and Her Boat - Our Supplies - Our By-Laws - Our Orator - The Fourth of July - An Attempt to Escape - Memorial to Gen. Washington - The Exchange - The Cartel - Our Arrival Home
Download or read book Recollections Of The Jersey Prison Ship written by Thomas Dring and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique first-person account of the abhorrent living conditions endured by American prisoners of war during the Revolutionary War. Captain Thomas Dring was a captive aboard the British prison ship in New York Harbor, known as the Jersey. His recollections provide an important historical perspective on the tragic mistreatment of prisoners during the war. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship written by Thomas Dring and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Recollections of the Jersey Prison ship written by Thomas Dring and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship Taken and Prepared for Publication from the Original Manuscript of the Late Captain Thomas Dring One of written by Thomas Dring and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship written by Albert G. Greene and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of the Jersey Prison-Ship: Taken and Prepared for Publication From the Original Manuscript of the Late Captain Thomas Dring, of Providence, R. I., One of the Prisoners IN presenting the following narrative to the public, it is deemed proper that it should be accompanied with a brief notice Of the individual from whose memory these Recollections were drawn; and with some account of the materials left by him, from which this work has been compiled. 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.
Download or read book Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship from the Manuscript of Capt Thomas Dring written by Thomas Dring and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship Taken and Prepared for Publication from the Original Manuscript of the Late Captain Thomas Dring One Of written by Thomas Dring and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... at the same time. I did not even know that either of them had been sick; and my first intimation of the fact was when 1 was told that their bodies were lying on the grating, on the upper deck. I there found them lying in the same clothes in which they had died. We procured a couple of blankets, and placed them around the bodies, previous to their interment. I applied For permission to accompany their remains to the land, and to assist in their burial; but this was denied me. I however watched their progress to the shore, and saw them deposited in the bank. Mr. Mitchell was generally known among'his fellow-citizens of Providence; and there are many now living who well recollect him. It will, at first, appear almost incredible, that my former companions, my friends and fellow-townsmen could be thus sick and dying, so near me, and I remain in profound ignorance of the fact. But such was, in reality, our situation in this little world of concentrated misery. We were separated and scattered over the different parts of the crowded hulk, and mingled with the great mass of the prisoners: and sometimes meeting each other, among the multitude, we would, on enquiring respecting the fate of an old comrade, receive the appalling information, that he had either been attacked by sickness and removed to one of the Hospital Ships; or had died, and gone to his last home under the bank of the Wallabout. CHAPTER XI. THE MARINE GUARD. "Remembrance shudders at this scene ofTenrs--'-Still in my Tiew some tyrant chief appears, "Some base-born Hessian slave walks threatening by, "Some servile Scot, with murder in his eye, "Still haunts my sight, as vainly they bemoan "Rebellions manag'd so unlike their own." "No waters laded...
Download or read book Forgotten Patriots written by Edwin G. Burrows and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons -- more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. It was in New York, not Boston or Philadelphia, where most Americans gave their lives for the cause of independence. New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution because it was the principal base of the Crown's military operations. Beginning with the bumper crop of American captives taken during the 1776 invasion of New York, captured Americans were stuffed into a hastily assembled collection of public buildings, sugar houses, and prison ships. The prisoners were shockingly overcrowded and chronically underfed -- those who escaped alive told of comrades so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. Despite the extraordinary number of lives lost, Forgotten Patriots is the first-ever account of what took place in these hell-holes. The result is a unique perspective on the Revolutionary War as well as a sobering commentary on how Americans have remembered our struggle for independence -- and how much we have forgotten.
Download or read book Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship from the Manuscript of Captain Thomas Dring written by Albert Greene and published by . This book was released on 1988-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
