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 : $b 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 ofWaterhouse, Benjamin
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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 : $b 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
Waterhouse, Benjamin
Dartmoor Prison; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Prisoners and prisons
That on the 6th of April, about six o'clock in the evening, while
walking in the yard of No. 3 prison, I heard the alarm bell ring,
and I went up towards the gate: I saw several men bearing a
wounded man towards the gate, whom it appeared had been wounded by
the soldiers' bayonets; when the prisoners were retreating out of
the square, I heard Captain Shortland order a part of them to let
go the wounded man, which some of them did; one of the remaining
remonstrated to Captain Shortland, saying that the man was so
badly wounded that it required several to support him; on which
Captain Shortland struck him several blows with his fists, and he
appeared to me, from the whole of his conduct, to be much
intoxicated with liquor--and further the deponent saith not.
ANDREW DAVIS, JUN.
No. IV.
We, the undersigned, depose and say--
That on the 6th of April, in the evening, we were in the yard of
No. 1 and No. 3 prisons, when we heard the firing at the gates,
and saw the prisoners all endeavoring to get into their respective
prisons. In going down towards the lower door of the prisons, we
saw a party of soldiers, who were posted on the walls, commence
firing on the prisoners, and we saw a man fall, who immediately
died, and several others were badly wounded before they were able
to get into the prisons.
_Amos Cheeney_,
_Washington Fox_,
_John Smith_,
_Harris Keeney_,
_James Coffen_,
_Thomas Williams_,
_Henry Casey_.
No. V.
_Homer Hull_, after being duly sworn on the holy evangelists of
Almighty God, deposeth and saith--
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