[Mill Prison, Plymouth, May 1778]
6th. Wednesday this day John Fowler of the Fancy’s Crew1 Died at the Hospital with Pleuretic-fever,2 & as he died sudden there was a Jury held Over him, which shews the People was Jealous3 of Somthing that was bad, but made no Discoveries this is the fourth man Died here Since my Imprisonment4
D, MeHi, Jonathan Haskins Journal.
1. Massachusetts privateer brigantine Fancy, Capt. John Lee, commander. It was captured in late 1777.
2. That is, a fever caused by pleurisy.
3. That is, suspicious. In his diary entry of this date, Charles Herbert wrote that the prisoners suspected “there had been bad usage” of Fowler. Herbert, Relic of the Revolution, p. 119.
4. Haskins was committed to Mill Prison on 28 May 1777. Cohen, Yankee Sailors, p. 49.