I recently purchased two sets of books dealing with Whitney genealogy -- the Watertown, MA family and the Whitneys from Connecticut. While browsing through them trying to find a grandmother born in 1740 I read about a Whitney who was a prisoner on one of these ships for many years. It said that upon his release he made his way home only to find his wife had remarried. So he let her be and went to live with his father (or some other family member) and died about 18 months later. Naturally he was in very poor health due to the horrendous conditions aboard the prison ships. I have the impression that maybe the wife never knew he had been released, which makes his actions all the more heroic. It would take a bit of time to find this particular Whitney again...but I will keep it in mind and as I go through the books I can post this info about these prisoners to the list as I find it. Carol