John May, Daniel Adams, George McCormick, Jacob Kettle, Jacob Miller,
George Mason, James Kearney, David Sutor, Adam Bridel, Christian Mull,
Daniel McKnight, Cornelius Westbrook, Luke Murphy, Joseph Conklin,
Adam Dennis, Edward Ogden, Wm. Scoonover, James Rosencrants."

The names of the officers who were prisoners in New York after the
battle of Long Island and the surrender of Fort Washington, can easily
be obtained. But it is not with these, at present, that we have to
do. We have already seen how much better was their treatment than that
accorded to the hapless privates. It is chiefly to commemmorate the
sufferings of the private soldier and seaman in the British prisons
that this account has been written.



CHAPTER IV

THE PRISONS OF NEW YORK--JONATHAN GILLETT


We will now endeavor to describe the principal places of confinement
used by the British in New York during the early years of the war.
Lossing, in his Field Book of the Revolution, thus speaks of these
dens of misery: "At the fight around Fort Washington," he says, "only
one hundred Americans were killed, while the British loss was one
thousand, chiefly Hessians, But the British took a most cruel
revenge. Out of over 2600 prisoners taken on that day, in two months &
four days 1900 were killed in the infamous sugar houses and other
prisons in the city.