- Author
- Evans, Melvern R.
- Date of Publication
- 1985
later Chief Burgess of Lan-
caster, was appointed Barracks Master in 1775, and he supervised
several hundred employees. As the prisoners increased in number jt
was thought advisable to transfer some to York and Reading. How-
ever, in the winter of 1778, York was stricken with a smallpox
epidemic and