United States War of 1812 Prisoner of War Records

Online Records

 * War of 1812, Prisoner of War Records, 1812-1815 Ancestry ($) - Note: M1747 and M2019 are combined in this database
 * War of 1812: US POW in UK
 * War of 1812 British and Canadian prisoners in United States

Libraries

 * Locate these records at a library using Worldcat.
 * Family History Library. Records relating to War of 1812 prisoners of war. NARA M2021

British Prisoner of War Books

 * Relating to American Prisoners of War, 1812–1815, from the Public Record Office, London". General entry books for American prisoners incarcerated on ships and in prisons. They give each prisoner’s name; ship; date and place of capture; rank; birthplace; age; physical description; and details of discharge, death, or escape.


 * online at FamilySearch - free. Includes American prisoners of war (1812-1815) in Barbados, Bermuda, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), Chatham (England), Dartmoor (England), Gibraltar, Halifax (Canada), Ship Hector, Jamaica, Malta, Nassau (Bahamas), Newfoundland (Canada), New Provindence (Bahamas), Odiham (England), Plymouth (England), Portsmouth (England), Ship Quebec, Stapleton (England). Also includes "American, alphabetical list of prisoners of war, ADM 103/511, 1755-1831".


 * Dartmoor Prison in England, American Deaths 1813-1815, The Society of the War of 1812 in the States of Illinois and Wisconsin, Compiled and verified by Ron Joy and Ira Dye, Lists Name, Rank, Unit/Ship, Date of Death, Home State/Town.


 * America POW's in War on 1812 who died at the British Internment Facility at Halifax.


 * Huntsberry, Thomas V and Joanne M Huntsberry. Dartmoor Prison. (Baltimore, Maryland: J. Mart, 1984). 85 pages. About the Dartmoor Prison in Devon, England where many U.S. citizens were incarcerated during the War of 1812. Includes a list of American prisoners kept at Dartmoor Prison. 6,554 Americans were kept at this prison. Approximately 581 died while prisoners.


 * Libraries


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 * A guide to this collection is:


 * "Records Relating to American Prisoners of War, 1812–1815". Yorkshire, England: EP Microform, Limited, 1980.

Historical Register and Dictionary of the US Army

 * The "Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army..." by Francis B. Heitman lists Regular Army and volunteer officers from 1789 to 1903 in two volumes giving a brief history of the officers service and awards received. Casualties (including prisoners of war) from 1789 to 1902 are also listed as well as a chronological list of battles, actions, etc., in which troops of the Regular Army have participated. See Vol.2 pp.13-42 for a list of officers of the regular army that were killed, wounded, or taken prisoner between 1789 to 1903

Additional Prisoner of War Records

 * Records About Impressed Seamen, 1793-1814