Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Sam Jennings
MSA SC 5496-51743
War of 1812 Prisoner of War, Baltimore, Maryland, 1813

Sources:

Prison Registers: 

"Chatham Prison Records" UKNA: ADM 103/57.

"Plymouth Prison Records" UKNA: ADM 103/268.

"Dartmoor Prison Records" UKNA: ADM 103/91. 

Newspapers:

"Boston, Sept. 23, Late from France" Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald (Norfolk, VA) October 5, 1813. 

"Late from Halifax" Newburyport Herald (Newburyport, MA) November 11, 1814.  

"More of the Bulwark's Kindness!" New Hampshire Gazette (Portland, NH) May 9, 1815. 

Secondary Sources: 

Emmons, George Foster. The Navy of the United States from the Commencement, 1775 to 1853 (Washington: Gideon & Co., 1853) 

Horsman, Reginald, "The Paradox of Dartmoor Prison" American Heritage (February, 1975) volume 26 issue 2.

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