THE PRISONERS’ MEMOIRS,

OR
DARTMOOR PRISON;

CONTAINING A COMPLETE AND IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF

The Entire Captivity of the Americans in England,

FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE LAST WAR BETWEEN THE UNITEDSTATES AND GREAT BRITAIN, UNTIL ALL PRISONERS WERERELEASED 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.

THE WHOLE CAREFULLY

COMPILED BY A PRISONER IN ENGLAND,

Who was a Captive during the whole War.

“These sufferings I myself have seen, and to the greater part of which I was a principalparty. Who can relate such woes without a tear?”

NEW YORK:
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.

1852.

The following pages are presented to the public by one of the survivors ofthis worst of prisons, believing it will be read with deep interest by everyAmerican, and by every relative and friend of those who happened to be oneof the unfortunate inmates of the Dartmoor Prison.

If any part of the work should be found languid and tedious, it must bewholly attributed to the suffering situation of the author; the vigor andvivacity of whose mind was greatly affected by those of the body. Ifmisery is less interesting collectively in groups than when viewed individually,let the reader single out one, and view him, separately, through theiron grating, and see him, pale and feeble, etching upon a stick, with arusty nail, another notch, which adds to his calender another of those dismaldays and nights he had spent in confinement; he may view him till he seesthe iron enter his soul before he turns from him, and then say—it was myson, my brother, or my friend!—he will then have a picture interestingenough to his feelings.

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