Excerpt from The Old Jersey Captive: Or a Narrative of the Captivity of Thomas Andros, (Now Pastor of the Church in Berkley, ) on Board the Old Jersey Prison Ship at New York, 1781, in a Series of Letters to a Friend, Suited to Inspire Faith and Confidence in a Particular Divine Providence The Bowles Memoirs is a work of the greatest rarity. But few copies of it are known to exist, and Peter Force attempted, for twenty years, to procure one, but failed. Mr. Field, collecting as he did so many years ago, when books of this kind were very much more common than they are now, was also unable to procure a copy. It is, however, thus described in his Indian Bibliography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.