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Melville Island

Posted by Karyn Van Kainen on July 17, 2009 at 3:52pm

Melville Island in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was where my 5th great-grandfather, Christopher Crary, was imprisoned during the American Revolution. Christopher escaped from Halifax and then volunteered to serve aboard a privateer. He was again captured, this time imprisoned aboard one of the British prison-ships moored in New York harbor.

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