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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, 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, 1816 / written by himself.
Life at Sea : Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846, author.
- Series:
- Life at sea.
- Life at sea
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dartmoor Prison.
- Navies.
- Sailors.
- United States--History--War of 1812--Prisoners and prisons.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (240 pages)).
- Edition:
- The second edition, with considerable additions and improvements.
- Manufacture:
- Boston : Rowe & Hooper, 1816.
- Place of Publication:
- 1816 /
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022. Digitized from a copy held by the Massachusetts Historical Society and made available by Adam Matthew Digital.
- Description based on online resource; title from scanned document's title page (viewed on November 30, 2022).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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