[Mill Prison, Plymouth, June 1778]
7th Sunday this Morning Died Dr. Munheir Very Suddenly, I believe hire is but few Mourners in Prison, as We have but Little Reason to Expect a worse—1
Also this Morning after we were turned Out, two belonging to the L.P.2 were in the Drean of the Vault a Mineing; but was Discover’d by the T. Key the Guard Alarmed.3 they taken & Comttd. to the B[lack]. hole for 40 Days
D, MeHi, Jonathan Haskins Journal.
1. Dr. Munheir, whose name has also been given as Manheir and Manheim, was the prison doctor at Mill Prison. As can be seen by Haskins’s comment, he was considered incompetent. See also, Cohen, Yankee Sailors, pp. 63 and 102.
2. That is, the Long Prison.
3. In his account of this escape attempt, Charles Herbert adds that the men had begun working on the hole five days earlier and were “nearly finished” when discovered. He adds, “Thus every method we take to make our escape is found out before it is accomplished, and our unhappy efforts are not blest.” Herbert, Relic of the Revolution, 131–32.
