Episode 10: Unsung
Nathaniel Soley Benton, History of Herkimer County Including the Upper Mohawk Valley (Munsell, 1856).
Edwin G. Burrows, Forgotten Patriots: the Untold Story of American Prisoners during the Revolutionary War (Basic Books, 2010).
Robert E. Cray, “Commemorating the Prison Ship Dead: Revolutionary Memory and the Politics of Sepulture in the Early Republic, 1776-1808,” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 3, (1999), pp. 565–590.
Danske Dandridge, American Prisoners of the Revolution (The Michie Company Printers, 1911).
Christopher Hawkins, The Life and Adventures of Christopher Hawkins, a Prisoner on Board the "Old Jersey" Prison Ship during the War of the Revolution (Printed for the Holland Club, 1858).
Betsy Knight, “Prisoner Exchange and Parole in the American Revolution,” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 2, (1991), pp. 201–222.
George Taylor, Martys to the Revolution in the British Prison-Ships in the Wallabout Bay (W.H. Arthur & Co., Stationers, 1855).
“The Appalling Way the British Tried to Recruit Americans Away from Revolt,” History.com, 31 Jan. 2020, www.history.com/news/british-prison-ships-american-revolution-hms-jersey.
“The HMS Jersey.” History.com, 19 March 2010, www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/the-hms-jersey.
“Hell in the Harbor - Death on Board the HMS Jersey,” Founder of the Day, 12 June 2019, www.founderoftheday.com/founder-of-the-day/hms-jersey.
“The Sunken History of This Revolutionary War 'Ghost Ship',” New York Post, 25 Aug. 2017, nypost.com/2017/08/24/the-sunken-history-of-this-revolutionary-war-ghost-ship/.
“The Grisly History of Brooklyn's Revolutionary War Martyrs,” Smithsonian.com, 13 Mar. 2017, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/grisly-history-brooklyns-revolutionary-war-martyrs-180962508/.
“‘Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead!," AMERICAN HERITAGE, 1 Sept. 2020, www.americanheritage.com/rebels-turn-out-your-dead.
Watson, Robert P. The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: an Untold Story of the American Revolution (Da Capo Press, 2017).
“Elisha Benton (1748-1777) - Find A Grave Memorial,” Find a Grave, www.findagrave.com/memorial/65207514/elisha-benton.
“Genealogy,” Tolland Historical Society, date unknown, tollandhistorical.org/geneology/.
“Ghost Stories Live On In Historic Home,” Courant.com, Hartford Courant, 31 Oct. 2019, www.courant.com/community/tolland/hc-rr-tolland-benton-homestead-ghost-stories-1107-20191031-a2j4qlol35hn3bxa7lj5cux2hq-story.html.
“Privateering in the American Revolution and the War of 1812,” Battlefields, https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/militia-sea.
Daniel Benton Homestead, Occult World, date unknown, https://occult-world.com/daniel-benton-homestead.