Note 1244 — Chapter VII

On the questions arising from the carrying of prisoners by the American cruisers into European ports, see Hale's Franklin in France, ch. xi. and xviii. On American prisoners in England, see Mag. of Amer. Hist., June, '82, p. 428; Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne, p. 81; occupants of Old Mill prison, near Plymouth, N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1865, pp. 74, 136, 209; occupants of Forton, and journal of Timothy Connor in Ibid., xxx. 3, 175, 343; xxxi. 18, 212, 288; xxxii, 70, 165, 280; xxiii. 36; journal of Samuel Custer, etc., Ibid., Jan., 1878; Charles Herbert's Relics of the Rev., Amer. prisoners in England (Boston, 1847), with lists of names and the edition of 1854, called The Prisoners of 1776, compiled from Herbert's Journal by R. Livesey; narratives in Moore's Diary, ii. 344, 437. In 1780 there was reprinted in London, to be sold for the benefit of the American prisoners then in England, a Poetical Epistle to George Washington, by the Rev. Charles Perry Wharton of Maryland, which had been originally printed in Annapolis in 1779. There was prefixed to it an unusual portrait of Washington, "engraved by W. Sharp from an original picture."