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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Prisons and prison-ships, British (search)
, the most spacious of which were churches and sugar-houses. In the North Dutch Church, corner of Fulton and William streets, were Van Cortlandt's sugar-house. confined at one time 800 prisoners; and in the Middle Dutch Church, corner of Nassau and Liberty streets, room was made for 3,000 prisoners. Both churches were stripped of their pews, and floors were laid from one gallery to the other. Sugar-House in liberty Street. Provost jail. Smaller churches were used for hospitals. Rhinelander's, Van Cortlandt's, and Livingston's sugar-houses contained hundreds of prisoners, whose sufferings for want of fresh air, food, and cleanliness were dreadful. Under Commissaries Loring, Sproat, and others, and particularly under the infamous Provost-Marshal Cunningham, the prisoners in these buildings and the provost jail received the most brutal treatment. Hundreds died and were cast into pits without any funeral ceremonies. The heat of summer was suffocating in the sugar-house priso
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
1859. 32,395.Young, May 21, 1861. 50,420.Kellogg, Oct. 10, 1865. 50,622.Payne, Oct. 24, 1865. 58,156.Vose et al., Sep. 18, 1866. 59,145.White, Oct. 23, 1866. 63,445.Weaver, April 2, 1867. 69,421.Evans, Feb. 16, 1867. 70,770.Woods et al., Nov. 12, 1867. 74,233.Manuel, Feb. 11, 1868. 88,031.Goodale, Mar. 23, 1869. 112,526.Allen et al., Mar. 14, 1871. 112,868.Van Fleek, Mar. 28, 1871. No.Name and Date. 113,099.Russell, Mar. 28, 1871. 115,413.Baggott, May 20, 1871. 122,523.Rhinelander et al., Jan. 9, 1872. 126,315.Mayall, April 30, 1872. 136,473.Ward, Mar. 4, 1873. 152,557.Haskall et al., June 30, 1874. 153,387.Smith, July 21, 1874. 153,388.Smith, July 21, 1874. 154,563.Powers, Sept. 1, 1874. Wire-coiling machine. Machine for coiling springs. Spring-coiling mandrel. Wire-spring coiling-machine. Wire-spring Coil′ing-ma-chine′. A machine for forming spiral springs from strips of metal. In Fig 7298, the heated strip of metal is held by a guide-rest