Adams Papers Indexes | Adams Papers, Cumulative Index to volumes published through 2008 | P | Prisoners of war
To Thomas Digges, 14 August 1780 [Papers of John Adams 9:45]
To Edmé Jacques Genet, 3 May 1780 [Papers of John Adams 9:267]+
From Edmund Jenings, 24 December 1781 [Papers of John Adams 12:157]
From Robert R. Livingston, 29 May 1782 [Papers of John Adams 13:85]
From Edmund Jenings, 24 July 1782 [Papers of John Adams 13:203]+
From Isaac Smith Sr., 9 October 1782 [Papers of John Adams 13:521]
– Amer. [8 references]
– Amer. retaliation against [2 references]
– Amer. treatment of [1 reference]
– American [23 references]
– British [25 references]
– British expenditures for [1 reference]
– British treatment of [9 references]
– Canadian [4 references]
– Commissioners determine disposition of [3 references]
– Commissioners successfully seek confinement of, in France [5 references]
– Commissioners' aid to, in France and England [8 references]
– Commissioners' efforts to aid [9 references]
– Congress to retaliate against [2 references]
– Franklin accuses Digges of embezzling funds for [2 references]
– French regulations on [6 references]
– French taken on Amer. ships considered as [1 reference]
– Hessian: offered work [2 references]
– Highlanders [4 references]
– JA acts as Franklin's agent in exchange of [2 references]
– JA and [1 reference]
– JA comments on convention army in Affaires [1 reference]
– JA defends Commissioners' expenditures on behalf of [5 references]
– JA on as loss of sailors to Britain [1 reference]
– JA on his fate if taken [1 reference]
– Letters [2 subentries]
– agent needed for [1 reference]
– aided by John Boylston [1 reference]
– allegedly to work for East India Co. [1 reference]
– and Anglo-French prisoner cartel [1 reference]
– as prisoners of war [1 reference]
– as volunteers in British navy [1 reference]
– assistance to [23 references]
– at Mill Prison [1 reference]
– brought from prison by habeas corpus [1 reference]
– capture of Curson and Gouverneur [1 reference]
– captured by France on British ships [7 references]
– captured in Europe and returned to England [2 references]
– criticism of JA for partiality in efforts to assist [1 reference]
– die on prison ships [2 references]
– dispute over agent for exchange of [5 references]
– enlistment in British navy as a means of enlargement [1 reference]
– escape of [4 references]
– escape to France [3 references]
– escaped [3 references]
– escaped prisoners detained on South Carolina [1 reference]
– escapees [1 reference]
– escapes of [4 references]
– exchange of [84 references]
– exchange of, with America [4 references]
– exchange proposed [12 references]
– exchanges [10 references]
– expenditures by help U.S. economy [1 reference]
– held on Patience [2 references]
– help from private individuals [3 references]
– hung at Augusta, Ga. [1 reference]
– impressed into British navy [1 reference]
– impressment of [1 reference]
– imprisoned at Halifax [1 reference]
– imprisoned in France [7 references]
– in England [4 references]
– in New York [2 references]
– in New York city [2 references]
– in prison ships [3 references]
– kinder treatment and repatriation as policy of new British ministry [2 references]
– make pleas to Commissioners [3 references]
– mentioned [2 references]
– murder of [1 reference]
– number held in America [4 references]
– on British prison ships [2 references]
– plight in England [6 references]
– precedents for exchange of [2 references]
– proposed exchange of Burgoyne for Laurens [1 reference]
– proposed exchange of Laurens for Burgoyne [1 reference]
– proposed use of, as crew for Boston [1 reference]
– recruitment of exchanged prisoners [6 references]
– release of [3 references]
– rumored to be tried as pirates [1 reference]
– seek and receive assistance, [27 references]
– sent to Bermuda [2 references]
– status in neutral countries [1 reference]
– subsistence for [1 reference]
– taken at Eutaw Springs [2 references]
– taken at Minorca [2 references]
– taken at Pensacola [1 reference]
– taken at Saratoga [1 reference]
– taken at St. Eustatius [1 reference]
– taken at Yorktown [6 references]
– taken by Dutch [1 reference]
– taken by J. P. Jones pose problem [8 references]
– taken by N.Y. militia [1 reference]
– taken off privateers [1 reference]
– treatment of [5 references]
– under law of nations [1 reference]
– whole British army as, if do not evacuate U.S. [1 reference]