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A journal, of a young man of Massachusetts : late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British...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
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Tk.431
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dartmoor Prison.
- United States--History--War of 1812--Prisoners and prisons.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 240 p. ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- 2nd ed., with considerable additions and improvements.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Printed by Rowe & Hooper, 1816.
- Notes:
- "A novel founded on fact."--Allibone, Dict. of athors.
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