[Forton Prison, Portsmouth, May 1778]
Saturday 30th This day all the Officers are put upon half allowance till they tell who made the whole1 Likewise the militia came to do duty over us in the room of the old fogues2
D, DLC, Forton Prison, England, American Prisoner’s Journal, 1777–79, collection 2272.
1. On the “hole,” see Journal of Timothy Connor, 24 May, above.
2. The editor of a printed version of Connor’s diary surmises that Connor was writing a variation of the word “fogies,” and that he referred to men from the Corps of Invalids who were used in time of war to augment British garrisons and to guard prisons. William R. Cutter, ed., “A Yankee Privateersman in Prison in England, 1777–1779,” The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 31 (1877), p. 19, note 5.
