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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On Sunday last, a flag from New-York returned to New London with 20 released American prisoners from British prison ships. About 1000 Americans remain confined there in deplorable conditions for over six months, with contagion rampant; many are joining British service to escape. Roughly 500 have died and 200 are sick in the past five-six months.
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Sunday last a flag returned from New-York which brought 20 Americans who had been a long time on board a prison ship. --About one thousand of our countrymen remain in the prison-ships at New-York, great part of whom have been under close confinement for more than six months, and in the most deplorable condition; many of them, seeing no prospect of a releasement, are entering into the British service, to elude the contagion with which those ships are fraught.
We learn that about 500 persons have died on board the different prison ships at New-York during the last five or six months, and that about 200 are now sick.
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New York
Event Date
Sunday Last
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about 500 persons have died; about 200 are now sick; 1000 remain confined, some entering british service.
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A flag returned from New-York bringing 20 Americans released from a prison ship after long confinement. About one thousand countrymen remain on prison-ships at New-York, under close confinement for more than six months in deplorable condition with contagion; many entering British service to escape it.