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- GLC#
- GLC00890
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 8, 1814
- Author/Creator
- Boggs, Francis, fl. 1814
- Title
- to Daniel Fisher
- Place Written
- Puerto Rico
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 30 cm, Width: 22 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Boggs wrote this letter as a United States seaman being held as a prisoner of war on a British ship during the War of 1812. He comments on the war and asks for assistance in getting released. He discusses the miseries of the prisoners' situation over the last fifteen months, being forced to work with enslaved individuals in service of the British government and having to impress men for service in the British armed forces. He asks for aid for their families, and notes that the two prisoners with him are named Parker Wilcox and William Fox. Fisher is identified as a major.
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