A journal of a young man of Massachusetts
Subtitle: 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
Contributors: Babcock, Amos G.
Edition: The 2nd ed., with considerable additions and improvements.
Publisher: Printed by Rowe & Hooper, 78 State-Street
Published: 1816
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: History; Prisoners and prisons; Dartmoor Prison
Notes: 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 ...

"A novel founded on fact."--Allibone, Dict. of authors.

According to Dr. Henry R. Viets in the Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine, July 1940, Waterhouse may have been the editor but the author was probably Dr. Amos G. Babcock, surgeon on the "Enterprise." See also Wright, Lyle H. American fiction.

Information re Babcock from "The Month" at Goodspeed's, April, 1964, v. 35, no.7.

Rare Book copy: Autograph of former owner, John Plimpton, May 1817.

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