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Richard Stockton Episode 3: Brutal Capture, Provost Prison & The Heaviest Price | The Brutal Hit
What’s up, you magnificent bastards? 👊 Episode 3 of The Brutal Hit — our 4-part deep dive into Brother Richard Stockton.
The Princeton lawyer and first New Jerseyman to sign the Declaration who paid one of the heaviest personal prices of any signer.
We sit in the brutal reality: the nighttime Loyalist betrayal and capture at the Covenhoven estate, dragged from bed in his nightshirt into the freezing dark, the hellish Provost Prison in New York with irons, starvation, scurvy, and deliberate cruelty aimed at breaking signers. Then the controversial parole, the looting and damage to Morven, and…
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