Provost Jail Small 320×200 Medium 640×400 Large 1024×640 Download TIFF Original 2400×1501 | (2.5 MB) Description The New Jail was made a Provost Prison during the Revolutionary War and here officers and men of note were confined. Keywords American Revolutionary War, prison, Provost Jail, sugar house Galleries 1763-1788 American Revolution Places, Prisons and Punishments Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 7) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)
