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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Prisons and prison-ships, British (search)
; 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 prisons. I saw, says Dunlap, in describing the one in Liberty Street, every narrow aperture of those stone walls filled with human heads, face above face, seeking a portion of the external air. For man