From: Memoir of Col Benjamin Tallmadge (Brother of William):
Regarding William's parentage, birth and death:
"The subject of this memoir (Col Benjamin Tallmadge) was born at Brookhaven, on Long Island, in Suffolk county, State of New York, on the 25th of February, 1754. His father, the Rev Benjamin Tallmadge, was the settled minister of that place, having married Miss Susannah Smith, the daughter of the Rev John Smith, of White Plains, Westchester county, and State of New York, on the 16th of May, 1750... My father was born at New Haven, in this State (Connecticut), January 1st, 1725, and graduated at Yale College, in the year 1747, and was ordained at Brookhaven, or Setauket, in the year 1753, where he remained during his life... William Tallmadge, born October 17, 1752, died in the British prison, 1776."
In light of the above statements:
William Tallmadge the first child born to Benjamin and Susannah (Smith) Tallmadge, historical records place this family in White Plains, Westchester county, New York in 1750 and in Brookhaven, Suffolk county, New York in 1753. William was probably born in New York.
Regarding William's Death:
Also from the Memoir of Col Benjamin Tallmadge:
" The movements of the enemy indicating an intention to approach New York by the way of Long Island, Gen Washington ordered about 10,000 men to embark and cross the East River at Brooklyn. The regiment to which I belonged was among the first that crossed over, and on the 27th of August, the whole British army, consisting of their own native troops, Hessians, Brunswickers, Waldeckers, etc, to the number of at least 25,000 men, with a most formidable train of field artillery, landed near Flatbush, under cover of their shipping, and moved towards Jamaica and Brooklyn,. As our troops had advanced to meet the enemy, the section soon commenced, and was continued, at intervals, through most of the day. Before such an overwhelming force of disciplined troops, our small band could not maintain their ground, and the main body retired with their lines at Brooklyn, while a body of Long Island Militia, under Gen Woodhall, took their stand at Jamacia. Here Gen Woodhall was taken prisoner and inhumanly killed. The main body of our army, under Major General Sullivan and Lord Stirling, fought in detached bodies, and on the retreat both of those officers were made prisoners. I also lost a brother the same day, who fell into their hands, and was afterwards literally starved to death in one of their prisons..."
END OF MEMOIR QUOTATION
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American prisoners of war tended to be accumulated at large sites that the British were able to occupy for long periods of time. New York City, Philadelphia, and Charleston, South Carolina, were all major cities used to detain American prisoners of war. Facilities at these places were limited. At times, the occupying army was actually larger than the total civilian population.
The British solution to this problem was to use obsolete, captured, or damaged ships as prisons. Conditions were appalling, and many more Americans died of neglect while imprisoned than were killed in battle. Historian Edward G. Burrows writes that, "by the end of 1776, disease and starvation had killed at least half of those taken on Long Island and perhaps two-thirds of those captured at Fort Washington – somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500 men in the space of two months."
During the war, at least 16 hulks, including the infamous HMS Jersey, were placed by British authorities in the waters of Wallabout Bay off the shores of Brooklyn, New York as a place of incarceration for many thousands of American soldiers and sailors during about 1776-1783. These prisoners of war were harassed and abused by guards who, with little success, offered release to those who agreed to serve in the British Navy. Over 10,000 American prisoners of war died from neglect. Their corpses were often tossed overboard, though sometimes they were buried in shallow graves along the eroding shoreline. Many of the remains became exposed or were washed up and recovered by local residents over the years and later interred nearby in the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument at Fort Greene Park, once the scene of a portion of the Battle of Long Island.
Regarding William's parentage, birth and death:
"The subject of this memoir (Col Benjamin Tallmadge) was born at Brookhaven, on Long Island, in Suffolk county, State of New York, on the 25th of February, 1754. His father, the Rev Benjamin Tallmadge, was the settled minister of that place, having married Miss Susannah Smith, the daughter of the Rev John Smith, of White Plains, Westchester county, and State of New York, on the 16th of May, 1750... My father was born at New Haven, in this State (Connecticut), January 1st, 1725, and graduated at Yale College, in the year 1747, and was ordained at Brookhaven, or Setauket, in the year 1753, where he remained during his life... William Tallmadge, born October 17, 1752, died in the British prison, 1776."
In light of the above statements:
William Tallmadge the first child born to Benjamin and Susannah (Smith) Tallmadge, historical records place this family in White Plains, Westchester county, New York in 1750 and in Brookhaven, Suffolk county, New York in 1753. William was probably born in New York.
Regarding William's Death:
Also from the Memoir of Col Benjamin Tallmadge:
" The movements of the enemy indicating an intention to approach New York by the way of Long Island, Gen Washington ordered about 10,000 men to embark and cross the East River at Brooklyn. The regiment to which I belonged was among the first that crossed over, and on the 27th of August, the whole British army, consisting of their own native troops, Hessians, Brunswickers, Waldeckers, etc, to the number of at least 25,000 men, with a most formidable train of field artillery, landed near Flatbush, under cover of their shipping, and moved towards Jamaica and Brooklyn,. As our troops had advanced to meet the enemy, the section soon commenced, and was continued, at intervals, through most of the day. Before such an overwhelming force of disciplined troops, our small band could not maintain their ground, and the main body retired with their lines at Brooklyn, while a body of Long Island Militia, under Gen Woodhall, took their stand at Jamacia. Here Gen Woodhall was taken prisoner and inhumanly killed. The main body of our army, under Major General Sullivan and Lord Stirling, fought in detached bodies, and on the retreat both of those officers were made prisoners. I also lost a brother the same day, who fell into their hands, and was afterwards literally starved to death in one of their prisons..."
END OF MEMOIR QUOTATION
------------------------------------------------
American prisoners of war tended to be accumulated at large sites that the British were able to occupy for long periods of time. New York City, Philadelphia, and Charleston, South Carolina, were all major cities used to detain American prisoners of war. Facilities at these places were limited. At times, the occupying army was actually larger than the total civilian population.
The British solution to this problem was to use obsolete, captured, or damaged ships as prisons. Conditions were appalling, and many more Americans died of neglect while imprisoned than were killed in battle. Historian Edward G. Burrows writes that, "by the end of 1776, disease and starvation had killed at least half of those taken on Long Island and perhaps two-thirds of those captured at Fort Washington – somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500 men in the space of two months."
During the war, at least 16 hulks, including the infamous HMS Jersey, were placed by British authorities in the waters of Wallabout Bay off the shores of Brooklyn, New York as a place of incarceration for many thousands of American soldiers and sailors during about 1776-1783. These prisoners of war were harassed and abused by guards who, with little success, offered release to those who agreed to serve in the British Navy. Over 10,000 American prisoners of war died from neglect. Their corpses were often tossed overboard, though sometimes they were buried in shallow graves along the eroding shoreline. Many of the remains became exposed or were washed up and recovered by local residents over the years and later interred nearby in the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument at Fort Greene Park, once the scene of a portion of the Battle of Long Island.
From: Memoir of Col Benjamin Tallmadge (Brother of William):
Regarding William's parentage, birth and death:
"The subject of this memoir (Col Benjamin Tallmadge) was born at Brookhaven, on Long Island, in Suffolk county, State of New York, on the 25th of February, 1754. His father, the Rev Benjamin Tallmadge, was the settled minister of that place, having married Miss Susannah Smith, the daughter of the Rev John Smith, of White Plains, Westchester county, and State of New York, on the 16th of May, 1750... My father was born at New Haven, in this State (Connecticut), January 1st, 1725, and graduated at Yale College, in the year 1747, and was ordained at Brookhaven, or Setauket, in the year 1753, where he remained during his life... William Tallmadge, born October 17, 1752, died in the British prison, 1776."
In light of the above statements:
William Tallmadge the first child born to Benjamin and Susannah (Smith) Tallmadge, historical records place this family in White Plains, Westchester county, New York in 1750 and in Brookhaven, Suffolk county, New York in 1753. William was probably born in New York.
Regarding William's Death:
Also from the Memoir of Col Benjamin Tallmadge:
" The movements of the enemy indicating an intention to approach New York by the way of Long Island, Gen Washington ordered about 10,000 men to embark and cross the East River at Brooklyn. The regiment to which I belonged was among the first that crossed over, and on the 27th of August, the whole British army, consisting of their own native troops, Hessians, Brunswickers, Waldeckers, etc, to the number of at least 25,000 men, with a most formidable train of field artillery, landed near Flatbush, under cover of their shipping, and moved towards Jamaica and Brooklyn,. As our troops had advanced to meet the enemy, the section soon commenced, and was continued, at intervals, through most of the day. Before such an overwhelming force of disciplined troops, our small band could not maintain their ground, and the main body retired with their lines at Brooklyn, while a body of Long Island Militia, under Gen Woodhall, took their stand at Jamacia. Here Gen Woodhall was taken prisoner and inhumanly killed. The main body of our army, under Major General Sullivan and Lord Stirling, fought in detached bodies, and on the retreat both of those officers were made prisoners. I also lost a brother the same day, who fell into their hands, and was afterwards literally starved to death in one of their prisons..."
END OF MEMOIR QUOTATION
------------------------------------------------
American prisoners of war tended to be accumulated at large sites that the British were able to occupy for long periods of time. New York City, Philadelphia, and Charleston, South Carolina, were all major cities used to detain American prisoners of war. Facilities at these places were limited. At times, the occupying army was actually larger than the total civilian population.
The British solution to this problem was to use obsolete, captured, or damaged ships as prisons. Conditions were appalling, and many more Americans died of neglect while imprisoned than were killed in battle. Historian Edward G. Burrows writes that, "by the end of 1776, disease and starvation had killed at least half of those taken on Long Island and perhaps two-thirds of those captured at Fort Washington – somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500 men in the space of two months."
During the war, at least 16 hulks, including the infamous HMS Jersey, were placed by British authorities in the waters of Wallabout Bay off the shores of Brooklyn, New York as a place of incarceration for many thousands of American soldiers and sailors during about 1776-1783. These prisoners of war were harassed and abused by guards who, with little success, offered release to those who agreed to serve in the British Navy. Over 10,000 American prisoners of war died from neglect. Their corpses were often tossed overboard, though sometimes they were buried in shallow graves along the eroding shoreline. Many of the remains became exposed or were washed up and recovered by local residents over the years and later interred nearby in the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument at Fort Greene Park, once the scene of a portion of the Battle of Long Island.
Regarding William's parentage, birth and death:
"The subject of this memoir (Col Benjamin Tallmadge) was born at Brookhaven, on Long Island, in Suffolk county, State of New York, on the 25th of February, 1754. His father, the Rev Benjamin Tallmadge, was the settled minister of that place, having married Miss Susannah Smith, the daughter of the Rev John Smith, of White Plains, Westchester county, and State of New York, on the 16th of May, 1750... My father was born at New Haven, in this State (Connecticut), January 1st, 1725, and graduated at Yale College, in the year 1747, and was ordained at Brookhaven, or Setauket, in the year 1753, where he remained during his life... William Tallmadge, born October 17, 1752, died in the British prison, 1776."
In light of the above statements:
William Tallmadge the first child born to Benjamin and Susannah (Smith) Tallmadge, historical records place this family in White Plains, Westchester county, New York in 1750 and in Brookhaven, Suffolk county, New York in 1753. William was probably born in New York.
Regarding William's Death:
Also from the Memoir of Col Benjamin Tallmadge:
" The movements of the enemy indicating an intention to approach New York by the way of Long Island, Gen Washington ordered about 10,000 men to embark and cross the East River at Brooklyn. The regiment to which I belonged was among the first that crossed over, and on the 27th of August, the whole British army, consisting of their own native troops, Hessians, Brunswickers, Waldeckers, etc, to the number of at least 25,000 men, with a most formidable train of field artillery, landed near Flatbush, under cover of their shipping, and moved towards Jamaica and Brooklyn,. As our troops had advanced to meet the enemy, the section soon commenced, and was continued, at intervals, through most of the day. Before such an overwhelming force of disciplined troops, our small band could not maintain their ground, and the main body retired with their lines at Brooklyn, while a body of Long Island Militia, under Gen Woodhall, took their stand at Jamacia. Here Gen Woodhall was taken prisoner and inhumanly killed. The main body of our army, under Major General Sullivan and Lord Stirling, fought in detached bodies, and on the retreat both of those officers were made prisoners. I also lost a brother the same day, who fell into their hands, and was afterwards literally starved to death in one of their prisons..."
END OF MEMOIR QUOTATION
------------------------------------------------
American prisoners of war tended to be accumulated at large sites that the British were able to occupy for long periods of time. New York City, Philadelphia, and Charleston, South Carolina, were all major cities used to detain American prisoners of war. Facilities at these places were limited. At times, the occupying army was actually larger than the total civilian population.
The British solution to this problem was to use obsolete, captured, or damaged ships as prisons. Conditions were appalling, and many more Americans died of neglect while imprisoned than were killed in battle. Historian Edward G. Burrows writes that, "by the end of 1776, disease and starvation had killed at least half of those taken on Long Island and perhaps two-thirds of those captured at Fort Washington – somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500 men in the space of two months."
During the war, at least 16 hulks, including the infamous HMS Jersey, were placed by British authorities in the waters of Wallabout Bay off the shores of Brooklyn, New York as a place of incarceration for many thousands of American soldiers and sailors during about 1776-1783. These prisoners of war were harassed and abused by guards who, with little success, offered release to those who agreed to serve in the British Navy. Over 10,000 American prisoners of war died from neglect. Their corpses were often tossed overboard, though sometimes they were buried in shallow graves along the eroding shoreline. Many of the remains became exposed or were washed up and recovered by local residents over the years and later interred nearby in the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument at Fort Greene Park, once the scene of a portion of the Battle of Long Island.
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