16, threw 2700 prisoners into their power. 'The British took possession of New York Sep. We have already mentioned this dreary abode of wretchedness, but it deserves a more elaborate description.įrom Valentine's Manual of the Common Council of New York for 1844 we will copy the following brief sketch of the British Prisons in New York during the Revolution. We will now take our readers with us to the Sugar House on Liberty Street, long called the Old Sugar House, and the only one of the three Sugar Houses which appear to have been used as a place of confinement for American prisoners of war after the year 1777. As found in the book, 'American Prisoners of The Revolution', By Danske Dandridge.
