A journal of a young man of Massachusetts : late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British, in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last, at Dartmoor prison : interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations : to which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners / written by himself.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.

Contributor:

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

United States--History--War of 1812--Prisoners and prisons.

United States.

Dartmoor Prison.

Penn Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (donor)

Wilson, Helen Godey (bookplate)

Physical Description:

240 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates (folded) : illustrations ; 18 cm

Edition:

The second edition, with considerable additions and improvements.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Printed by Rowe and Hooper, 1816.

Cited in:

Shaw-Shoemaker: 39720

Wright, 2674

Sabin, 102060

OCLC:

63598461