Title: The old Jersey captive
Subtitle: or, A narrative of the captivity of Thomas Andros...on board the old Jersey prison ship at New York, 1781. In a series of letters to a friend...
Description: An invaluable, first person acount of an unbelievable escape from the British death camp of the revolutionary war. It literally put the 
faith of God into the author and he subsequently went on to minister for over fifty years raising all his seventeen children to adulthood
and various professions including a surgeon, lawyer, minister and public officials.
Subjects: Jersey (Prison-ship), Prisoners and prisons, History, revolutionary war, privateers
Places: United States, New York, Long Island
People: Thomas Andros
Time periods: Revolution, 1775-1783