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Title: Overseer's Roll
Description: Record of labor performed by prisoners (listed by inmate number), arranged by block.
Subject: Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania ; Convict labor; State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Date: 1843-12-31

Title: Mersereau, Joshua to Abraham Skinner, 1780 October 18; No. 939 Joshua Mersereau to Abraham Skinner
Identifier(s): text:353627
Description: Complains that his own department [the commissary of prisoners] is not properly regulated, threatens to resign, and points out the need for good, experienced officers; mentions glassmaking [by prisoners?].; Typescript transcription on microfilm.
Creator: Mersereau, Joshua, 1728-1804et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Convict labor; Skinner, Abraham, 1755-1826
Date: 1780-10-18; 2023