2-329-790 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Joshua Huddy led from prison to be hanged, 1782 (c1880). Huddy (1735-1782) was the commander of a New Jersey militia unit and a privateer ship in the American Revolutionary War. He was captured and hanged by loyalist forces in retribution for the death of a loyalist refugee, Phillip White, in American custody. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume II, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.