[Forton Prison, Portsmouth, 1778]
March 18 this day we received letters from Capt Thompson at Nanze in France last Night a very hot Press thro' Portsmouth and Gosport—they Press'd 500 Men and sent on board the guard Ship at Spit-head.
D, DLC, Forton Prison, England, American Prisoner's Journal, 1777-79, collection 2272.