A concise narrative of the barbarous treatment experienced by American prisoners in England and the West-Indies, &c
By: Written by a young man who was prisoner nearly six months in the island of Barbadoes, and five in England. ; Interspersed with anecdotes, remarks, &c. &c. ; [One line of quotation]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 37290
Publisher: Printed by Ebenezer Eaton.
Published: 1816
Place of publication: Danville [Vt.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: History; Personal narratives; Prisoners and prisons
Other titles: Narrative, &c.
Notes: Caption title: Narrative, &c.

A subsequent edition, published at Hanover, N.H. in 1816 (not in Shaw & Shoemaker), names R. Stevenson Coffin as author. In his autobiography, The life of a Boston bard (Mount Pleasant, N.Y., 1825), p. 65-66, Coffin describes the circumstances of the first printing.

Attributed to Simeon Coleman in Shaw & Shoemaker. Laid in the American Antiquarian Society copy is a letter from M.M. Stocker of Danville, dated April 18, 1921, recounting the local tradition of the appearance of "Simeon Coleman" in that town. The name is likely a corruption of "Stevenson Coffin" through oral transmission, and Stocker's letter is presumably the source for the Shaw & Shoemaker entry.

"The following song was written by the author of this narrative, on board the prison-ship Vestal, in the West-Indies, December, 1814. Song."--p. 23-24.

"Errata."--p. 24.

Shaw & Shoemaker 37290

McCorison, M.A. Vermont, 1835

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.