At about 4 in the Afternoon all the Officers & most of the Soldiers that were Prisoners here were order'd into the Flat bottom'd Botes & went down to the Fleet, where we were put on Board the Pacific a Ship of about 900 Tons, Commanded by one Capt Dun here our Accomodations were but somewhat Coars, for Officers & Men, being almost 400 in Number, were soon Drove under Deck together without Distinction; Here we kept our Residence three Nights Successively, & my own Lodging was no other than a Great Gun or a Quile of Riging, yet we here Recd: great Indulgence from one Mr. Dowdswell an Officer of the Marines, who was our Emediate Overseer
1. William H. W. Sabine, ed., The New-York Diary of Lieutenant Jabez Fitch of the 17th (Connecticut) Regiment from August 22, 1776 to December 15, 1777 (New York, 1954) 35, 36. Hereafter cited as Sabine, ed., Fitch's Diary.
2. Fitch, who was taken prisoner toward the conclusion of the battle of Long Island, was then being held with other prisoners in a barn near Red Hook.
