The prisoners' memoirs, or, Dartmoor prison - C. Andrews

1852.

PREFACE.

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

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

CERTIFICATE.

We, the undersigned, late prisoners of war, having been confined the greater part of the last war between the United States of America and Great Britain, and having carefully perused and examined the following Manuscript Journal, kept by Charles Andrews, our fellow-prisoner at Dartmoor, in the County of Devon, in the kingdom of Great Britain, do solemnly declare, that all matter and occurences herein contained, are just and true, to the best of our knowledge and belief; and that this is the only Journal kept at Dartmoor.

Capt. Joshua Wait,	New-York.
Capt. Samuel H. Ginnodo,	Newport, R. I.
Capt. Frederick H. Coffin,	Hudson, N. Y.
Mr. Joseph C. Morgan,	Newport, R. I.
Lieut. Homer Hull,	—— Conn.
Mr. Jacob Evans,	Baltimore, Md.
Capt. Benjamin F. Chesebrough,	—— Conn.
Mr. Luther S. Dunbar,	Boston, Mass.
Capt. Richard Longly,	Portland, D. M.
Mr. Ephraim Abbott,	Boston, Mass.
Mr. Fenton Conner,	Charleston, S. C.
Mr. Joseph Conner,	Newbern, N. C.
Mr. David Morrison,	—— Pennsylvania.
Mr. Caleb Coffin,	Nantucket, Mass.
Mr. John Merrill,	Portland, Maine.
Capt. Charles Bennet,	Hudson, N. Y.
Mr. William Griffin,	Salem, Mass.
Mr. James Bowie,	do.do.
Mr. John F. Foster,	Gloucester, Mass.
Mr. Joseph Clark,	Cape-Elizabeth, do.
Mr. John Stafford,	Boston, Mass.
Mr. Charles Whitewood,	New-York.
Mr. Reuben Bunn,	do.
Mr. Samuel Rossett,	do.
Mr. Jacob F. Taylor,	Philadelphia.
Mr. William Conklin,	New-York.
Mr. Samuel S. Brush,	do.
Capt. John C. Rowles,	Baltimore, Md.
Mr. John Meigh,	Boston, Mass.
Mr. Edward Shaw,	Baltimore, Md.
Lieut. S. S. Fitch,	—— Connecticut.
Mr. Samuel Correy,	—— Vermont.
Mr. Samuel Howard,	Baltimore, Md.
Mr. William Clark,	Boston, Mass.
Mr. Joseph Fosdick,	do.
Mr. Samuel Morrison,	New-York.
Mr. William Hull,	do.
Mr. William Atkins,	—— Connecticut.
Mr. Daniel Hotchkins,	Salem, Mass.
Mr. Thomas Carlton,	Boston, do.
Mr. John Migat,	Warren, R. I.
Mr. Cornelius Hoy,	Baltimore, Md.
Capt. Jesse S. Smith,	Stonington, Conn.
Mr. James Sproson,	New-York.
Mr. Benjamin Wheeler,	Baltimore, Md.
Mr. George Scott,	——, ——.
Capt. Matthew S. Steel,	Philadelphia, Penn.
Mr. W. P. Sevear,	Baltimore, Md.
Capt. James McQuilter,	do.do.
Mr. John S. Miller,	do.do.
Mr. Thomas Bailey,	Salem, Mass.
Mr. Warren Humphrey,	—— Connecticut.
Mr. William Rea,	Boston, Mass.
Capt. Thomas Hussey	Hudson, N. Y.
Capt. James Boggs,	Philadelphia, Penn.
Capt. James Gays,	—— Virginia.
Capt. Thomas Mumford,	Newport, R. I.
Mr. Isaac Dowel,	Baltimore, Md.
Mr. Frederick G. Low,	Cape-Ann.
Mr. Henry Bull,	—— Connecticut.
Doct. Benjamin Mercer,	New-York.
Mr. Reuben Sherman,	—— Mass.

N. B.—Out of the above list there are, at this time, only nine survivors, as far as can be ascertained.