On this day 250 years ago in the Provost prison in New York City, Lt. Jabez Fitch recorded in his diary that he was informed of the death of Corp. Joseph White of Capt. Abraham Tyler’s company and several other men from his regiment and that

we are also Inform’d that the Prisoners in Genll: grow Remarkably sick and Die very fast . . . Mrs: Archer came to see us again . . . . This good Woman . . . could Inform us of nothing new, Except some particular Circumstances of the Sufferings of our soldiers.

Source: Fitch Diary at p. 61 accessed at https://archive.org/details/newyorkdiaryofli0000fitc/page/60/mode/2up

On this day 250 years ago in Westchester County, New York, a detachment from the Marblehead Regiment skirmished with a Hessian patrol and “killed twelve and took three prisoners; one of the slain was an officer of rank, on horseback” but one of the Continental soldiers was killed.

Source: O’Donnell, Indispensables at 272-73

We should remember today the sacrifice of Corp. Joseph White and the unnamed Continental soldiers who died in British captivity and in the skirmish with Hessian soldiers in New York 250 years ago, as well as the heroic Mrs. Archer who provided aid and comfort to the American prisoners.