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On July 22, 1781, St. John was among forty-eight congregants captured when [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Tories]] surrounded the Congregation Church in present-day [[Darien, Connecticut|Darien, CT]]. St. John and the others including the church’s revered pastor [[Moses Mather]] were made to walk to [[Long Island Sound]], where they were loaded onto a ship bound for [[Lloyd Harbor, New York|Lloyds Neck, Long Island]] where they were held in cruel, filthy conditions. Thereafter, half of the prisoners, St. John included, were sent to [[New York City, New York|New York]] were they were parade through the streets before a jeering crowd to be held in the Provost Prison as prisoners of war. St. John was imprisoned until the end of December, 1781 when was freed along with the eighteen other survivors in a prisoner exchange.<ref>{{cite web|title=Guide Book To New England Travel: New York To New Haven Guidebook, Originally Published 1919|url=http://www.oldandsold.com/articles16/new-england-roads-19.shtml}}</ref> The incident became the basis for St. John’s poem ''Descent on Middlesex, a Poetical Relation of the Capture of the Congregation at Middlesex...with an Account of their Sufferings & c. while in captivity''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Descent on Middlesex, 1781|url=http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cofairfield/pages/darien/stjohn.html|accessdate=14 August 2012}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 20:23, 16 August 2012
Peter St. John was an American poet and schoolteacher from Norwalk, CT who supported the Patriot cause during the American Revolution.
Works
St. John’s better-known poems included The Death of Abel, An Historical or rather a Conjectural Poem; Relating many things which might probably take place both Before and After that Barbarous Fratricide (1793) and American Taxation (1765),[1] new lyrics set to the well-known colonial tune The British Grenadiers.[2]
Imprisonment
On July 22, 1781, St. John was among forty-eight congregants captured when Tories surrounded the Congregation Church in present-day Darien, CT. St. John and the others including the church’s revered pastor Moses Mather were made to walk to Long Island Sound, where they were loaded onto a ship bound for Lloyds Neck, Long Island where they were held in cruel, filthy conditions. Thereafter, half of the prisoners, St. John included, were sent to New York were they were parade through the streets before a jeering crowd to be held in the Provost Prison as prisoners of war. St. John was imprisoned until the end of December, 1781 when was freed along with the eighteen other survivors in a prisoner exchange.[3] The incident became the basis for St. John’s poem Descent on Middlesex, a Poetical Relation of the Capture of the Congregation at Middlesex...with an Account of their Sufferings & c. while in captivity.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Taxation of America, 1765". Retrieved 14 August 2012.
- ^ "Music and Poetry of the American Revolution". Retrieved 14 August 2012.
- ^ "Guide Book To New England Travel: New York To New Haven Guidebook, Originally Published 1919".
- ^ "Descent on Middlesex, 1781". Retrieved 14 August 2012.