Last night, 1/15/07, I attended a Milford Historical Society meeting to hear a talk given by Pulitzer Prize winning author Edwin G. Burrows (his book "Gotham" won the award). He spoke about his upcoming book called "Prisoners of New York" about the prisoners taken by the British during the Revolutionary War, many of whom were housed on prison ships, and some of whom contracted smallpox and were dumped on the beach in my town (Milford CT). Most of them died shortly afterwards, including Capt. Stephen Stowe who doctored them, and are buried in a mass grave in town.