David Foster
MSA SC 5496-51696
War of 1812 Prisoner of War, Maryland, 1813
Sources:
Prison Registers:
"Plymouth Prison Register" UKNA: ADM 103/268.
"Dartmoor Prison Register" UKNA: ADM 103/87.
Freedom Certificates:
Talbot County Court (Certificates of Freedom) 1807-1815 MSA CM1193-1.
Newspapers:
Lloyd's List no.4765 (London, UK) April 27, 1813.
Secondary Sources:
Bolster, W. Jeffrey, Black Jacks: African-American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997) 104.
John Philip Cranwell and William Bowers Crane. Men of Marque: A History of Private Armed Vessels out of Baltimore During the War of 1812 (New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1940) 398.
Garitee, Jerome R. The Republic's Private Navy: the American Privateering Business as practiced by Baltimore during the War of 1812 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1977) 281.
Horsman, Reginald, "Paradox of Dartmoor Prison" American Heritage (February, 1975) vol. 26 issue 2.
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