Richard W. Stockton A.L.S. Carlisle, Pa., ca. 1777 : to Thomas Peters, Deputy Commissary General of Prisoners
1777
MSS L1998F444
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Title
Richard W. Stockton A.L.S. Carlisle, Pa., ca. 1777 : to Thomas Peters, Deputy Commissary General of Prisoners
Published
Carlisle ca. 1777
Description
[4] p. ; 33 cm.
Call Number
MSS L1998F444
Note
Concerns Peters' request for prisoners' names, ranks, and commissions, the last of which had apparently been left in Philadelphia where the prisoners had been jailed originally.
Stockton writes on behalf of himself and 3 captains and 3 subalterns, members of the New Jersey Volunteers, a Loyalist regiment
Stockton, possibly a cousin of patriot and signer Richard Stockton, had been taken prisoner in 1777 -- See S. Dubeau. New Brunswick Loyalists ... 1983 and L. Sabine. Biog. sketches of Loyalists.
"... I address[ed] the honourable the Congress some short time ago setting forth our grievances which really surpasses every thing that was ever heard of in a Christian Land. We are mixt with ruffians and criminals ... sick and well all together...."
In another hand, possibly that of Peters or of his superior, Elias Boudinot: The officers at Carlisle are in a room the best the gaol will afford, but it is not a good one & tho' prisoners of different character are confined under the same roof they are not together so that it is not the whole truth which is equal to a falsehood as to the idea Mr. S. means to convey."
The New Jersey Volunteers were also known as Skinner's Greens.
For additional information, see "Narrative of John Connolly, Loyalist" in Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, vol. 13, p. 61-69.
Digitized image available.
Stockton writes on behalf of himself and 3 captains and 3 subalterns, members of the New Jersey Volunteers, a Loyalist regiment
Stockton, possibly a cousin of patriot and signer Richard Stockton, had been taken prisoner in 1777 -- See S. Dubeau. New Brunswick Loyalists ... 1983 and L. Sabine. Biog. sketches of Loyalists.
"... I address[ed] the honourable the Congress some short time ago setting forth our grievances which really surpasses every thing that was ever heard of in a Christian Land. We are mixt with ruffians and criminals ... sick and well all together...."
In another hand, possibly that of Peters or of his superior, Elias Boudinot: The officers at Carlisle are in a room the best the gaol will afford, but it is not a good one & tho' prisoners of different character are confined under the same roof they are not together so that it is not the whole truth which is equal to a falsehood as to the idea Mr. S. means to convey."
The New Jersey Volunteers were also known as Skinner's Greens.
For additional information, see "Narrative of John Connolly, Loyalist" in Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, vol. 13, p. 61-69.
Digitized image available.
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