The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

It has lately been computed, from the lists and returns of the prison ships at New York, that no less than 5000 persons, or thereabouts, have died out of those receptacles of misery, from the time the British took possession of that capital, in September, 1776, to March last. If we add to these the great numbers that have died after their exchange, with the infectious ship fevers and other contagions brought from thence, the amount will be formidable indeed, and must deeply affect every friend to America, especially when he considers that these men were the flower and strength of our marine, and have most of them been needlessly sacrificed to the low revenge and murderous policy of a mean spirited, rancorous and unprincipled enemy.