British prisoners held in United States in the War of 1812
I saw a rootsweb mail list posting and thought I would check it out. Wow, someone has taken the time to digitally photograph National Archives records and post them online. The Site reads:
The photographs below cover British prisoners held in the United States due to the War of 1812. This includes not only Army and Navy prisoners but also those taken on merchant vessels and privateers. The listing is by first letter of the surname only e.g Brown, John might be followed by Black, Charles.In total some 15,000 names are registered.
The site is at http://www.1812privateers.org/GB/Prisoners.htm . The rootsweb mail list post also states they hope to have Americans in British P.O.W. camps up soon. I cant wait for that one……
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