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Advertisement Notwithstanding the advertisements from time to time, inserted in the several news-papers, for collecting the prisoners of war in the different parts of the Eastern states; it has not been adheared to, but utterly rejected .

Author(s):United States. Continental Army. Commissary General's Dept

Published:[Boston : s.n., 1779]

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The British prison-ship: a poem, in four cantoes.--Viz. Canto 1. The capture, 2. The prison-ship, 3. The prison-ship, continued, 4. The hospital-prison-ship. : To which is added, a poem on the death of Capt. N. Biddle, who was blown up, in an engagement with the Yarmouth, near Barbadoes. : [Thirteen lines from Milton]

Author(s):Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832

Published:Philadelphia: : Printed by F. Bailey, in Market-Street., M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]

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By the president of the Delaware state, a proclamation ... requiring all persons to exert themselves ... for apprehending and securing all prisoners escaping as aforesaid. Given under my hand and the great seal of the state, at New-Castle, the nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two

Author(s):Delaware. President (1781-1782 : Dickinson)

Published:[Wilmington, Del. : Printed by James Adams, 1782]

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By the president of the Delaware state, a proclamation Whereas it is discovered, that the British prisoners lately captured in the state of Virginia, find means to escape from the places of their confinement ... I ... issue this proclamation hereby strictly forbidding ... all persons to harbour or employ any prisoners of war ... Given under my hand and the great-seal of the state, at New-Castle, this twentieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one

Author(s):Delaware. President (1781-1782 : Dickinson)

Published:[Wilmington, Del. : Printed by James Adams, 1781]

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Capt. Smith, late of Maryland, who has been a prisoner among the rebels ever since Nov. 1775, having lately escaped from them, the following is a sketch of his narrative or journal, which is so well authenticated, that it may be relied on Narrative or journal of Capt. John Ferdinand Dalziel Smith, of the Queen's Rangers, taken prisoner by the rebels in 1775, lately escaped from them, and arrived here in the Daphne

Author(s):Stuart, John Ferdinand Smyth, 1745-1814

Published:[New York : Printed by Hugh Gaine, 1778]

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Description of the sufferings of those who were on board the Jersey and other prison ships in the harbour of New-York, during the struggle for our glorious independence

Author(s):Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832

Published:[New York? : s.n., between 1781 and 1786?]

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An entertaining narrative of the cruel and barbarous treatment and extreme sufferings of Mr. John Dodge during his captivity among the British, at Detroit In which is also contained, a particular detail of the sufferings of a Virginian, who died in their hands.

Author(s):Dodge, John, 1751-1800

Published:Danvers [Mass.], near Salem: : Printed and sold by E. Russell, next the Bell-Tavern. M,DCC,LXXX. At the same place may be had, a number of new books, &c. some of which are on the times.-- Cash paid for rags., [1780]

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In Congress, December 19, 1777 Whereas Sir William Howe, commander in chief of his Britannic majesty's forces, has required, that provisions should be sent in for the subsistence of the American prisoners in his possession ... and has prohibited the circulation of the money struck by the authority of these states ... And whereas large sums of Continental bills of credit have been counterfeited and issued by the agents, emissaries and abettors of Sir William Howe. Resolved, that the accounts of all provisions ... supplied by the public to prisoners ... be liquidated and discharged, previous to the release of any prisoners .

Author(s):United States. Continental Congress

Published:[York, Pa. : s.n., 1778]

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In Congress, January 9, 1779 Resolved, that the commissary general of prisoners be furnished with money from time to time by the Treasury Board for the purpose of subsisting the officers and soldiers of the United States while in captivity and in the actual possession of the enemy .

Author(s):United States. Continental Congress

Published:Philadelphia, : Printed by John Dunlap., [1779]

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In Council, June 16, 1779 The board proceeded to the consideration of the letters of Colonel Clarke, and other papers relating to Henry Hamilton, Esq; who has acted some years past as lieutenant governour of the settlement at and about Detroit .

Author(s):Virginia. Council of State

Published:Williamsburg [Va]: : Printed by John Dixon and Thomas Nicolson., [1779]

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Lancaster, the 14th July, 1776. In Committee Gentlemen, the Committee have received orders from the Congress, to keep a guard over the prisoners, at the barracks, and to have the barracks surrounded by a stockaded fort. .

Author(s):Lancaster County (Pa.). Committee of Observation

Published:[Lancaster, Pa. : Printed by Francis Bailey, 1776]

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Letters, by the author of Common sense First, to the Earl of Shelburne, now Marquis of Lansdowne, on the subject of American independence. Second, to Sir Guy Carlton, now Lord Dorchester, on the murder of Captain Huddy. Third, to the authors of "The Republican," a French paper; tendering his services in support of the Republican system. Fourth, to the Abbe Syeyes, a member of the French National Assembly; accepting the Abbe's challenge on the subject of government, by offering to defend the republican against the monarchical system

Author(s):Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809

Published:Albany: : Printed by Charles R. & George Webster, no. 46, State-Street, corner of Middle-Lane., M.DCC.XCII. [1792]

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The letters of the two commanders in chief; Generals Gage and Washington, and Major Generals Burgoyne and Lee; with the manifesto of General Washington to the inhabitants of Canada

Author(s):Gage, Thomas, 1721-1787

Published:New-York: : Printed by James Rivington., MDCCLXXV. [1775]

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Major Andre written while he was a prisoner in the American camp

Published:[Boston? : s.n., 1780?]

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A narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's captivity from the time of his being taken by the British, near Montreal, on the 25th day of September, in the year 1775, to the time of his exchange, on the 6th day of May, 1778: containing his voyages and travels ... Interspersed with some political observations.

Author(s):Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789

Published:[Boston] : Philadelphia: printed, Boston: re-printed by Draper and Folsom, at their printing-office, at the corner of Winter-Street., M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]

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