Professor John McCurdy
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 17 Apr
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Polly Robinson, she's drummed out along with a woman named Marcy because there's a suspicion that these women are engaging in prostitution.
It's rare to have sort of professional prostitutes following the army, at least on the American side.
Right.
So if you're a woman who's a sex worker, you want to target British soldiers because the British soldiers are being regularly paid.
And so they have cash.
American soldiers are notoriously not paid during the revolution.
So if you're doing sex for money, that's not a very good idea.
Yeah, no, the most interesting story I found – and this is going to – I might be jumping ahead a bit here.
But there's a story of a man named Captain Jackson.
He signs a – he's a British officer.
He signs a contract with the British Expeditionary Force to supply the British soldiers in New York City with women, with sex workers.
No.
He takes a contract at 7,000 pounds and he agrees to deliver some 3,500 women to New York.
The story is he fills 20 transports or 20 ships full of women, sends them across the ocean.
Most of these are women coming out of Liverpool and British cities.
But one of the transports doesn't make it.
It gets caught in the, you know, not all ships make it across the Atlantic and 50 women lose their lives.
Jeez.
Captain Jackson doesn't want to lose this money, and so he sends a ship to the Caribbean, to the West Indies, to find black women to bring them to New York to work as prostitutes.
And so the story is that these women set up in a place called the Meadows, which is now in New York City in Tribeca.
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