The prisoners' memoirs, or, Dartmoor prison : $b containing a complete and impartial history of the entire captivity of the Americans in England, from the commencement of the last war between the United States and Great Britain, until all prisoners were released by the treaty of Ghent. Also a particular detail of all occurrences relative to the horrid massacre at Dartmoor, on the fatal evening of the 6th of April, 1815.Andrews, C. (Charles)
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The prisoners' memoirs, or, Dartmoor prison : $b containing a complete and impartial history of the entire captivity of the Americans in England, from the commencement of the last war between the United States and Great Britain, until all prisoners were released by the treaty of Ghent. Also a particular detail of all occurrences relative to the horrid massacre at Dartmoor, on the fatal evening of the 6th of April, 1815.
Andrews, C. (Charles)
Dartmoor Prison; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Prisoners and prisons
Samuel E. Tyler, Boston, Tom, thigh and arm.
Joseph Reaver, Salem, Mass., legs and thighs.
Stephen S. Vincent, New-Jersey, head and ears.
James Christie, Tickler, different places.
William Smith, New-York.
Robert Willet, Portland, man-of-war, knee.
SLIGHTLY WOUNDED.
Ephraim Lincoln, Boston, Argus, by the bayonet.
Greenlow, Virginia, different places.
James Newman, Baltimore, impressed, by the bayonet.
Alexander Peterson, New-York, Erin, Boston, by the bayonet.
Joseph Music, Charleston, S. C., impressed, by the bayonet.
John Willet, Philadelphia, by the bayonet.
Joseph Hindil, Philadelphia, Young Wasp, in the hand.
Perry Richardson, Bath, Maine, Rolla, by the bayonet.
John Cowen, Teezer, by the bayonet.
James Barker, Wiscasset, Elbridge Gerry, by the bayonet.
James Wedgewood, Portsmouth, N. H., Lark, in the head.
James Mathews, Delaware, by the bayonet.
John Murray, New-York, by the bayonet.
William Marshal, Lawrence, by the bayonet.
Thomas Johnson, Albany, Criterion, by the bayonet.
The list of killed and wounded contains all that could be ascertained
at that time, but great suspicions remained among the prisoners that
more had been killed than were certainly known, as some were missing,
and not to be found among the living or the dead; it was supposed that
these had been killed, and being mangled in a most shocking manner,
were privately taken away by Capt. Shortland, and buried that night,
before Doctor Magrath entered the yard, and a report prevailed that he
had done it: as great numbers who were slightly wounded did not go to
the hospital, I, to ascertain the exact number of killed and wounded,
took the list of those in the hospital, from the doctor’s books, and
every prison mustered all those that refused going to the hospital, by
which means the list can be depended on as strictly correct.
At twelve o’clock, at noon, on the eighth, a jury of inquest arrived,
composed of twelve farmers, and a coroner, and sat over the bodies of
our murdered countrymen; they began to take the depositions of the
prisoners and turnkeys, and proceeded on till seven in the evening, and
adjourned till next morning.
The evidence of the prisoners corresponded with the statement in a
preceding page.
On the morning of the ninth, the dead not yet being buried, the jury
sat over them again, and proceeded on with the evidence on both sides,
which consisted of Dr. Magrath, whose evidence was against Shortland,
prisoners, turnkeys, soldier-officers, soldiers, &c.
The summary of the evidence I shall give presently; but I must here
digress a little to give some circumstances that intervened betwixt the
taking of the depositions, and the verdict of the jury.
This morning an order arrived for the discharge of thirty-four
prisoners, who had applied to be released to man ships in different
parts of Europe.
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