Prison Ship Martyrs Monument

Bronze door in base of column: 1776 / THE / PRISON / SHIP / MARTYRS / MONUMENT / 1908 / Vault on lower platform of interior stairway: IN THE NAME OF THE SPIRITS OF / THE DEPARTED FREE / SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THAT POR- / TION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN, SOLDIERS & / CITIZENS WHO PERISHED IN THE CAUSE OF / LIBERTY & THEIR COUNTRY ON BOARD THE / PRISON SHIPS OF THE BRITISH (DURING THE / REVOLUTIONARY WAR) AT THE WALL ABOUT. / THIS IS THE CORNER STONE OF THE VAULT / WHICH CONTAINS THEIR RELICS. ERECTED BY / THE TAMMANY SOCIETY OF THE COLUMBIAN / ORDER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. THE GROUND / FOR WHICH WAS BESTOWED BY JOHN JACKSON, / NASSAU ISLAND, SEASON OF BLOSSOM / YEAR OF DISCOVERY, THE 316TH /. OF THE INSTITUTION THE 19TH AND OF / AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE THE 32ND / APRIL THE 6TH, 1808. / WALL-ABOUT COMMITTEE: / JACOB VANDERVOORT / JOHN JACKSON / BURDET STRYKER / ISAACHER COZZENS / ROBERT TOWNSEND / BENJAMIN WATSON / SAMUEL COWDRY / WILLIAM AND DAVID CAMPBELL – BUILDERS / Plaque on front of monument (1960): IN MEMORY OF THE / 11,500 PATRIOTIC AMERICAN / SAILORS AND SOLDIERS / WHO ENDURED / UNTOLD SUFFERING / AND DIED ON THE / BRITISH PRISON SHIPS. / ANCHORED IN WALLABOUT / DURING THE / REVOLUTIONARY WAR / 1776-1782. / THEIR REMAINS LIE BURIED / IN THE CRYPT / AT THE BASE OF / THIS MONUMENT / WHICH WAS DEDICATED / ON NOVEMBER 14, 1908. / THIS PLAQUE WAS AFFIXED / BY THE / SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYNITES / ON JUNE 1, 1960 / FOELLY CRANE, M.D. / PRESIDENT / JAMES A. KELLY / BOROUGH HISTORIAN /

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Myrtle Avenue between St. Edwards Street and Washington Park. Location data: New York Open Data. Get directions