[Extract] 

. . . The above is a true list of American prisoners on Board the Judith prisoner Ship at New York. 

	139		206
French prisoners	67

Of which number 84 are Sick with a putrid fever, many of them irrecoverably ill, and all must inevitably lapse into the same unhappy State, as the weather encreases in heat, by Suffocation from a Stagnate and foul air, arising from their being promiscuously confin’d to about two thirds of this Small Ship’s Between decks, together with the well. 

May 11^th: 1778—