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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 / written by himself.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--War of 1812--Prisoners and prisons.
- United States.
- United States--History--War of 1812--Personal narratives.
- Dartmoor Prison--History.
- Dartmoor Prison.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p., [1] fold. leaf of plates )
- Other Title:
- Journal, of a young man of Massachusetts
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Printed by Rowe and Hooper, 1816.
- Notes:
- "A novel founded on fact."-- Cf. Alliborne, Dict. of authors.
- Usually considered a work of fiction by Waterhouse -- and so listed by Wright -- but according to H. R. Viets, it was edited by Waterhouse from a manuscript by Amos G. Babcock. Cf. Yale journal of biology and medicine, vol. 12 (July, 1940)
- Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
- Sabin no. 102060.
- Cited in:
- RLIN, CTRG01-B2041
- OCLC:
- 85797251
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