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Prisoners of war

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PJA09
PJA12
157
PJA13
PJA13
521

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British25

AFC02
AFC03
AFC04
241
DJA02
DJA03
DJA04

American23

assistance to23

exchange proposed12

exchanges10

British treatment of9

PJA06
PJA07

Commissioners' efforts to aid9

Amer.8

DJA03
DJA04

Commissioners' aid to, in France and England8

taken by J. P. Jones pose problem8

captured by France on British ships7

PJA07
PJA08

imprisoned in France7

French regulations on6

PJA06

plight in England6

recruitment of exchanged prisoners6

PJA08

taken at Yorktown6

PJA12

Commissioners successfully seek confinement of, in France5

PJA06

dispute over agent for exchange of5

JA defends Commissioners' expenditures on behalf of5

treatment of5

PJA07
55
PJA12
PJA13

Canadian4

PJA04
6
258
PJA05
392
PJA06

escape of4

PJA12

escapes of4

PJA13

exchange of, with America4

PJA09

Highlanders4

PJA04

in England4

PJA11

number held in America4

PJA06

Commissioners determine disposition of3

PJA06

escaped3

escape to France3

PJA07

help from private individuals3

PJA07
PJA08
289

in prison ships3

PJA12
PJA13
186

make pleas to Commissioners3

release of3

PJA12

Amer. retaliation against2

PJA05

captured in Europe and returned to England2

PJA05
309
PJA06
129

Congress to retaliate against2

PJA11

die on prison ships2

PJA11

Franklin accuses Digges of embezzling funds for2

PJA12

held on Patience 2

Hessian: offered work2

PJA05

in New York2

PJA12

in New York city2

PJA13

JA acts as Franklin's agent in exchange of2

PJA07
PJA08
33

kinder treatment and repatriation as policy of new British ministry2

AFC04

Letters2

From Commissioners (1778)1

PJA07
54

To Commissioners (1778)1

PJA06
386

mentioned2

PJA12

on British prison ships2

PJA06

precedents for exchange of2

PJA10

sent to Bermuda2

PJA13

taken at Eutaw Springs2

PJA12
77
93

taken at Minorca2

PJA12

agent needed for1

PJA12

aided by John Boylston1

AFC04
334

allegedly to work for East India Co.1

PJA05
78

Amer. treatment of1

PJA12
106

and Anglo-French prisoner cartel1

PJA09
267

as prisoners of war1

PJA12
440

as volunteers in British navy1

PJA09
45

at Mill Prison1

PJA10
61

British expenditures for1

PJA10
239

brought from prison by habeas corpus1

PJA12
379

capture of Curson and Gouverneur1

PJA12
178

criticism of JA for partiality in efforts to assist1

PJA12

enlistment in British navy as a means of enlargement1

AFC04
200

escaped prisoners detained on South Carolina 1

AFC04
237

escapees1

PJA11
143

expenditures by help U.S. economy1

PJA12
99

French taken on Amer. ships considered as1

PJA07
195

hung at Augusta, Ga.1

PJA11
137

impressed into British navy1

PJA12
140

impressment of1

PJA13
7

imprisoned at Halifax1

PJA12
140

JA and1

AFC04

JA comments on convention army in Affaires 1

PJA07
xix

JA on as loss of sailors to Britain1

PJA07
232

JA on his fate if taken1

PJA12
51

murder of1

PJA13
85

proposed exchange of Burgoyne for Laurens1

PJA10
306

proposed exchange of Laurens for Burgoyne1

PJA10
306

proposed use of, as crew for Boston 1

PJA06
325

rumored to be tried as pirates1

PJA11
96

status in neutral countries1

PJA06
114

subsistence for1

PJA10

taken at Pensacola1

PJA12
287

taken at Saratoga1

PJA12
87

taken at St. Eustatius1

PJA11
475

taken by Dutch1

PJA11
150

taken by N.Y. militia1

PJA12
74

taken off privateers1

PJA11
32

under law of nations1

PJA12
439

whole British army as, if do not evacuate U.S.1

PJA12
397
See also: Forton Prison
See also: Mill Prison

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