Revolutionary War prison ship, Brooklyn, list of Woodbury names
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Revolutionary War prison ship, Brooklyn, list of Woodbury names
 slay
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Posted: 26 Jan 2009 3:29AM GMT |
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The following Woodbury names are found on a list of prisoners kept aboard British ships in the East River of New York during the Revolution.
Woodbury, Herbert
Woodbury, Luke
Woodbury, Jacob
Woodbury, William
Woodbury, Robert
Woodbury, Nathaniel
It is unclear if these men were among the thousands who died while being held prisoner. Does anyone know anything about these six men, particularly Herbert and Luke. There was a Herbert Woodbury of Beverly, Mass., who is said to have skippered a merchant ship during the war. I have an ancestor, Luke Woodbury of Beverly, who at age 16 served with Glover's Marblehead regiment in 1776. Luke survived the war and his pension record makes no mention of ever being held prisoner. It was very common to have two or more Woodbury men of about the same age with the same given name so it is difficult to keep them sorted out.
Steve Lay
Hackettstown, N.J.
Woodbury, Herbert
Woodbury, Luke
Woodbury, Jacob
Woodbury, William
Woodbury, Robert
Woodbury, Nathaniel
It is unclear if these men were among the thousands who died while being held prisoner. Does anyone know anything about these six men, particularly Herbert and Luke. There was a Herbert Woodbury of Beverly, Mass., who is said to have skippered a merchant ship during the war. I have an ancestor, Luke Woodbury of Beverly, who at age 16 served with Glover's Marblehead regiment in 1776. Luke survived the war and his pension record makes no mention of ever being held prisoner. It was very common to have two or more Woodbury men of about the same age with the same given name so it is difficult to keep them sorted out.
Steve Lay
Hackettstown, N.J.