| Author | Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.
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| Title | 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...
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| Edition | 2d ed., with considerable additions and improvements. |
| Published | Boston : Printed by Rowe & Hooper, 1816.
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| Description | 240 p. ; 19 cm.
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| General Note | "A novel founded on fact."--Allibone, Dict. of athors.
Usually considered a work of fiction by Benjamin Waterhouse, but, according to H.R. Viets, edited by Waterhouse from a manuacript of Amos G. Babcock. cf. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, v. 12, July 1940, pp. 605-622.
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| Subjects | Dartmoor Prison.
Imprints, Early -- American -- To 1820.
United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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| Other Authors | Babcock, Amos G.
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| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: E 362 W326 J2
mq87941: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 51477] |
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