The old Jersey captive

By Thomas Andros

Subjects: revolutionary war, Prisoners and prisons, Jersey (Prison-ship), privateers, History

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.