The History Channel recently aired a program entitled "POW's of the American Revolution". A portion of this program was dedicated to the H.M.S. prison ship "Jersey" anchored in Wallabout Bay (now the location of the Brooklyn New York Navy Yard). Just curious for more information, I found a listing of prisoners of the Jersey on The American Merchant Marine website, which included 4 Whitney's : WHITNEY, George WHITNEY, Isaac WHITNEY, James WHITNEY, John WHITNEY, Peter The sources referenced were: American Prisoners of the Revolution, Danske Dandridge, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1911, 1967 and The Wallabout Prisoner Ships: 1776-1783, Eugene L. Armbruster, New York: 1920. The DAR National Society website under the heading of : "Prisoners on the British ship, New Jersey, and other prison ships" states that "there is no positive residence or unit identification of these list of names". The Jersey was only one ship in Wallabout Bay. Other ships mentioned were the Whitby, Scorpion, Prince of Wales, John, Strombole, Good Hope, Falmouth, and Hunter. Does anyone have any private information on these men or how would we ever know who they were? They endured unimaginable horrors. Are they just forgotten Whitney's? Jeanne Neilon