Excerpt from History of Newgate of Connecticut, at Simsbury, Now East Granby: Its Insurrections and Massacres, the Imprisonment of the Tories in the Revolution, and the Working of Its Mines, Also, Some Account of the State Prison at Wethersfield

The Multitude of Guards Appointed - The Tories become Desperate They Conspire to Escape - They overpower the Guard, and all Escape - Recapture of the Fugitive s - The Gazetteer of 1773 - A Cotemporary Story - The Prison buildings Destroyed.

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