JERSEY PRISON SHIP
\d͡ʒˈɜːsɪ pɹˈɪzən ʃˈɪp], \dʒˈɜːsɪ pɹˈɪzən ʃˈɪp], \dʒ_ˈɜː_s_ɪ p_ɹ_ˈɪ_z_ə_n ʃ_ˈɪ_p]\
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an unseaworthy sixty-four-gun ship, lying off the Brooklyn shore of New York harbor from 1776 to 1783, and used by the British as a prison for captured American sailors. Their treatment was most inhuman. Eleven thousand are said to have died of cold and starvation.
By John Franklin Jameson
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