Thursday, March 7, 2013

British Prisoners From The Ice Mound


Found in a contemporary account regarding prisoners from the Battle of the Ice Mound in a Baltimore, Maryland, newspaper:


Battle of the Ice Mound (source: GenealogyBank)
Wednesday, February 22, 1815  
Paper: American and Commercial Daily Advertiser  

Excerpted below:

13th Feby 1815

I do hereby certify and make known, that on Friday, the 10th February 1815,  Mr. Joseph Stewart, of Dorchester county*, a private in the militia of Dorchester county, delivered to me the following British prisoners captured by him and a small party of citizens, residing on, and near James' Island, on board a tender to the British ship Dauntless.  *Account linked indicated that the incident happened in 1814 (I believe in error)

Matt. Phibbs, lieut. and commandant.
James Gallaway, midshipman.

SEAMEN
Thomas Nicholas, John Strachan, James Robinson, Jacob Needham, Thomas R_eyly, ____Johnson**, James Rawlin, James Smart, Thos. Martin, William Harrower, Peter Parker, and William Sauntfield.  **Isaac Johnson

ROYAL MARINES

William Bennett, Thos. Blackham, and William Keenir.
Abraham Travers, a black man, and a black woman.

Henry Haskins, D p. Marshal
for Dorchester county





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