Dartmoor Massacre
- 7, [1]pp. Uncut. 8vo
- [Boston]: Price 15 cents, 1815
[Boston]: Price 15 cents, 1815. 7, [1]pp. Uncut. 8vo. Original blue paper wrappers. 7, [1]pp. Uncut. 8vo. Scarce account in verse of the Dartmoor Massacre in which American prisoners (captured American seamen) in a British jail were attacked by their captors at the end of the War of 1812. A caption title above the first stanza reads: "Transposed in Verse from the New-York Commercial Advertiser of the 6th June last, and the Boston papers of the same month." Sabin 100885; Stoddard and Whitesell 1116; Wegelin 1187n; Shaw and Shoemaker 36459