Volume 2 — CHAPTER XIV. DARTMOOR PRISON.

Impressed Americans made prisoners of war — Treatment of prisoners — Prison Ships — Dartmoor prison — Neglect of American prisoners — Their sufferings — Fourth of July in Dartmoor — Brutal attack of the French prisoners — Fresh arrivals — Joy at the news of our naval victories — Sufferings of the prisoners in winter — American Government allows them three cents per diem — Moral effect of this notice of Government — Napoleon's downfall — Increased allowance of Government — Industry of prisoners — Attempts to escape — Extraordinary adventure of a lieutenant of a privateer — Number of prisoners increased — A riot to obtain bread — Dartmoor massacre — Messrs. King and L'Arpent appointed commissioners to investigate it — Decision — The end.

A short chapter is due to those who, though not engaged in battle, suffered equally for their country, and despite the oppression and want which drove them well nigh to despair, refused to be faithless to the land that had nurtured them. The conduct of the land and naval officers to a vanquished enemy, did not present a more striking contrast than that of the two governments towards prisoners who had never taken up arms. Those placed in confinement by us were never allowed to suffer through want of clothing or food, while a barbarity characterized the treatment of American citizens that reflects the deepest disgrace on the British empire.

DARTMOOR PRISON.

When the declaration of war was made, the English vessels had a vast number of American seamen on board, most of them impressed, who flatly refused to fight against their country. Many of these, without having received the pay due them, were then sent to England as prisoners of war. Captures at sea swelled the number rapidly, which in the end amounted to nearly six thousand men. Officers of privateersmen and merchantmen on parole, were sent to Devonshire or Berkshire, where on thirty-three and a quarter cents per diem, they were allowed to subsist in comparative comfort; but the common sailors and merchant captains were scattered about in different prisons, the most, however, being collected and placed on board two old line-of-battle-ships in Portsmouth harbor. Hence, after a short imprisonment, characterized by a brutality not often found among half-civilized nations, they were transferred to Dartmoor prison, seventeen miles inland. This dreaded prison was situated high up on the side of a barren mountain, overlooking a bleak and desolate moor. It consisted of seven buildings, surrounded by two walls, the first a mile in extent and sixteen feet high; the second, thirty feet from the first, and surmounted by guards overlooking the spaces within. Each prison had but one apartment on a floor, around which, in tiers, six on a side, the hammocks were slung. Into one of these large cold apartments, nearly five hundred American prisoners were crowded during the year 1813. Their own Government had not then provided any thing towards their expenses, and they were dependent entirely on the allowance of the British officials. The garments they brought with them, at length wearing out, they were reduced to the most miserable shifts to cover their persons. As soon as it was dark, this half-famished multitude was turned into their prison, and left without a light to pass the long and dreary winter nights. Filthy, ragged, covered with vermin, they strolled around the yard in the day time, or lay basking in the sun to obtain a little warmth, and moody and despairing, gradually sank, through degrading companionship and the demoralization of want and suffering, lower and lower in the scale of humanity. A single bucket, only, containing the food, was allowed to a mess, around which they gathered with the avidity of starving men, and each with his wooden spoon struggled to eat fastest and most. To add to their sufferings the small-pox broke out among them, carrying many to their graves. Faint and far echoes from home would now and then rekindle hope in their bosoms, to be succeeded only by blank despair.

The better portion strove manfully to arrest the tendency around them to degradation, and constituted themselves a court to try offenders. When theft was proved on one, a punishment of twenty-seven lashes was inflicted. They also used every inducement to prevent the sailors from enlisting in the British service, to which last resort many were driven, to escape the horrors of that gloomy prison.

When the 4th of July arrived, they determined to celebrate the national anniversary in their own prison, and so having by some means obtained two American standards, they placed them at the two ends of the building, outside the walls, and forming into two columns marched up and down the yard, singing patriotic songs, whistling patriotic tunes, and cheering the flag of their country. The keeper, hearing of it, ordered the turnkeys to take away the flags; but the prisoners sent to him, requesting as a particular favor that they might be allowed to celebrate the anniversary of their country's independence, adding if he insisted on attacking their colors he must take the consequences. The guards were then ordered in, when a scuffle ensued, in which one flag was taken, but the prisoners bore the other off in triumph to their room. At evening, when the guards came as usual to shut them up, a great deal of severe language and opprobrious epithets were used, stigmatizing the pitiful revenge in taking away their flags as mean and contemptible. Retorts followed, blows succeeded, and finally the guard fired on the crowd, wounding two men. Thus ended the 4th of July, 1813, in Dartmoor.

In the apartments above the Americans, were crowded nearly a thousand French prisoners, miserable outcasts, with scarcely any thing left of our common humanity but the form. Many of them were entirely naked, and slept on the stone floor, stretched out like so many swine. The moment clothing was given them they would gamble it away. These wretches formed a conspiracy to murder all the Americans. Arming themselves with whatever weapon they could lay hands on, they contrived one morning to get into the yard before the latter, and as the first group of Americans, a hundred and fifty in number, emerged into the open air, fell upon them with the ferocity of fiends. Passing between them and the prison, they blocked the entrance to prevent the others from coming to the rescue. A wild scene of confusion and tumult followed. The French succeeded in stabbing and knocking down and mangling nearly every American, and would doubtless have beaten the whole to death had not the guard, attracted by the cries for help and shrieks of murder, rushed in, and by a bayonet charge ended the fray. A great number of the Americans were more or less injured and twenty shockingly mangled.

The succeeding months passed drearily away, with nothing occurring to break the weary monotony of life, except at long intervals the arrival of a fresh squad of prisoners. This was an event in their existence, and replaced them once more in communication with the outward world. The new comers were lions for the time. Eager groups gathered around each one, impatiently asking after the news, and how the war got on. The triumphs of our navy made them forget, for awhile, the gloom of their dismal abode. Every action had to be described over and over again, losing nothing by Jack's embellishments—the narration ever and anon interrupted with huzzas and acclamations. They would lie for hours awake in their hammocks, listening to the recital of the marvellous sea-fights in which "free trade and sailors' rights" were gallantly maintained, and cheers would burst out of the darkness, ringing down through the tiers of cots that lined the walls.

During the autumn of 1813, a fresh arrival of prisoners brought the news of Perry's victory on Lake Erie, and the capture of the Boxer by the Enterprise. These were the occasion of great rejoicing, and while the more intelligent and respectable portion of the captives discussed the victories calmly, the hundreds of common seamen shook the prison walls with their uproarious mirth and unbounded exultation.

1813.

The sufferings of the prisoners were the greatest during this winter. They were allowed no fire and no light, although the windows were not glazed; and locked within the cold damp stone walls at the close of the short winter days, were compelled to spend the long winter evenings in darkness, whiling away the time in telling stories—keeping warm by huddling together, or creeping to their hammocks with but a single tattered blanket to protect them from the cold. To make their wretchedness complete, the winter set in with a severity not felt before for half a century, and which has had no parallel since. The mountain on which the prison stood was covered with snow to the depth of from two to four feet. The stream running through the prison yard, and the buckets of water in the prisoners' room were frozen solid. Most of the prisoners being protected only by rags, and destitute of shoes, they could not go out into the yard at all, for it was covered with snow, but lay crouched in their hammocks all day and all night. The strong were bowed in gloom and despair, and the weak perished in protracted agonies. To fill up the measure of their sufferings, the commanding officer issued an order compelling them to turn out at nine o'clock in the morning, and stand in the yard till the guard counted them. This took nearly an hour, during which time the poor fellows stood barefoot in the snow, benumbed by the cold and pierced by the bleak December blasts that swept the desolate mountain, and hurled the snow in clouds through the air. Unable to bear this dreadful exposure, the prisoners cut up their bedding and made garments and socks for their feet to protect them from the frost, and slept on the cold floor. Morning after morning, hardy men overcome by the cold, fell lifeless in presence of their keepers, and were carried to the hospital, where they were resuscitated, only to be sent back to shiver and suffer on the icy floor of their prison. The better class remonstrated against this useless cruelty, but without effect.

Dec.

At length, in the latter part of the month, the agent was removed, and Captain Shortland took his place, who immediately revoked the order requiring the prisoners to be counted—represented strongly to the board of transport the condition they were in, and used all the means in his power to alleviate their sufferings and ameliorate the horrors of their confinement. Still, no clothing was furnished, and the cold was intense. The camp distemper also broke out, and many were not sorry to take it, in order to get in the more comfortable quarters of the hospital.

Mr. Beasely was agent for American prisoners of war in England, to whom those at Dartmoor constantly appealed for help. Receiving no answers to their repeated appeals, they denounced him as unfeeling and indifferent to their distress. At last, enraged at the neglect of their own Government, as represented in Mr. Beasely, and maddened by suffering, they drew up a paper and sent it to him, in which they declared that unless relief was granted they would offer, en masse, their services to the British Government. To this no answer was received for about a month, when a letter arrived, announcing that the United States would allow them about three cents a day to buy soap and tobacco with. Slight as this relief was, it shed sunshine through that prison. True, it was not sufficient to purchase them clothing; it did more, however; it showed that they were recognized by their Government—they were no longer disowned, forgotten men, but stood once more in communication with the land of their birth, and acknowledged to be American citizens. The moral effect of this consciousness was wonderful, and notwithstanding their nakedness and forlorn appearance, the prisoners felt at once a new dignity. A committee was appointed to suppress gambling, and a petition got up to separate them from the blacks, who were irredeemably given over to thieving. Previous to this ninety-five had entered the British service; now every one spurned the thought. They never would desert the country that owned them as sons.

In the spring the rigorous restrictions laid on them were relaxed, and they were allowed the privilege of the French prisoners. Free access to the other prisoners and to the market were given, and they established a coffee-house in their prison, selling coffee at a penny a pint. From French officers they learned the news of the day. The world was thus again thrown open to them, and though the prospect of exchange grew dimmer and dimmer, they resigned themselves with more tranquillity to their contemplated long confinement. In the mean time money began to arrive from friends at home, on which, as a capital, the recipients set up as tobacconists, butter and potatoe merchants, etc. Imitating the French, they learned to be economical, and invent methods of increasing their revenue. The bones left from their beef were converted into beautifully wrought miniature ships. Others plaited straw for hats, made hair bracelets, list shoes, etc., turning that gloomy receptacle of despairing, reckless men, into a perfect hive of industry. Soon after, another letter from Mr. Beasely arrived, stating that six cents a week, in addition to the former sum, would in future be allowed, per man. This little sum diffused new pleasure around, and filled every heart with animation and hope. They could now purchase clothing and other little articles, necessary to render their appearance becoming American citizens.

Succeeding this came the news of Napoleon's downfall and termination of the continental war. The French prisoners were, of course, released, and the Americans purchased out their stock in trade, utensils, &c.

Among the prisoners were gray-haired men, and boys from thirteen to seventeen years of age. For the latter a school was established, to instruct them in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Soon another welcome letter was received, announcing that the United States would hereafter clothe them. Clad in clean new, though coarse clothing, they now trod the yards of their prison with a manly bearing. The sense of inferiority was gone, and the characteristic boldness and independence of the American seamen again shone forth. They would argue with English officers on the war, repel insult, and denounce every act of cruelty or fraud as freely as if on their own soil.

The English Government having resolved to make Dartmoor the general depôt of the prisoners, fresh arrivals soon swelled the number to fourteen hundred. 1814. Being now in a better condition, they resolved to celebrate the approaching 4th of July with becoming pomp. American colors were obtained, two hogsheads of porter and some rum purchased, and a grand dinner of soup and beef prepared. Early in the morning the flag was run up, and as it flaunted to the wind, "All Canada, or Dartmoor prison for ever!" was seen inscribed upon its folds. At eleven the prisoners assembled, while the walls around were lined with the English soldiers and officers and clerks, curious to hear what kind of an oration a Yankee sailor would make. Mounted on a cask, the orator launched at once into the war, showed how we had been forced into it by the injustice of England, and dwelt with great unction on the separate naval victories the brave tars had gained. Dinner followed, the grog circulated freely, toasts were given, and a song composed expressly for the occasion sung. Mirth and hilarity ruled the hour, and the walls of that old prison shook to the deafening cheers and boisterous mirth of these sons of the ocean.

Soon after a plan of escape was put in execution, and for a long time proceeded without detection. Every prisoner was sworn to secresy, and a court organized to try any informer, who in case of conviction, was to be hung. Shafts were sunk in the ground—the hole at the top being carefully concealed—and broad excavations began and worked towards the walls, beyond which they were to come to the surface. A traitor, however, was found, who for the price of his liberty revealed all.

The number of prisoners continued to increase, so that by autumn, over five thousand were congregated in the prison. Before they were released, the number was swelled to five thousand six hundred and ninety-three. Frequent collisions occurred between them and the officers, which embittered the animosity of the latter, and finally brought on a bloody catastrophe.

With the approach of winter great suffering was experienced. The malignant small-pox again broke out, and raged with fatal violence amid this army of men.

The news of the treaty of peace, however, dissipated, for a time, all their gloom, and diffused joy and hope through the prisons. The word "Home," was on every man's lips, and a speedy release from that den of horrors and suffering was expected. But the gloomy winter passed, and spring came, without mitigating their condition or restoring them to freedom. The prisoners became exasperated. The two countries having been so long at peace, they felt themselves entitled to their freedom. They were no longer prisoners of war, but by the very act of the treaty, American freemen. They burnt Mr. Beasely, the American agent, in effigy, railed at their keepers, and swore they would make their escape by violence if not soon released.

On the fourth of April, Captain Shortland having gone to Plymouth, they were not allowed any bread. Bearing the privation patiently, for thirty-six hours, they resolved to break open the store-house and supply themselves. So at dark as the officers entered the yard and cried out, "Turn in! Turn in!" a signal previously agreed on was given, and in an instant the excited thousands moved in one dark mass towards the gates. One after another gave way before the tremendous pressure, and these maddened hungry men rushed around the depôt of provisions, their shouts and cries ringing over the alarm bells and beat of drums, that summoned the garrison to arms. The alarm spread to the neighboring villages, and the militia began to pour in. In a few moments the soldiers advanced with charged bayonets towards the multitude, when they were sternly ordered off by the prisoners, who swore that if they dared fire or charge, they would charge in turn, and level that store-house to the ground, and march out of prison. The officers, fearing the result of such a contest, prudently promised to give them their usual supply if they would retire to their respective prisons. They did so, and quiet was restored. The bold and successful manner in which the Americans had overawed the soldiery and coerced submission to their demands, irritated them highly, and made them wish for a good opportunity to retaliate. April 6. This was soon furnished. Two days after, Captain Shortland, who had returned, observed a hole in that portion of the inner wall which separated two of the prison yards from the barracks, and suspecting, or pretending to suspect it was made by the prisoners for the purpose of escaping, he immediately ordered the alarm bells to be rung and the drums to beat. The prisoners, surprised and excited, rushed towards the gates of the yard to ascertain the cause of the alarm. The thousands behind pushing forward the thousands before, they became packed in an impenetrable mass at the entrance, and the pressure was so great that some were forced out through one of the gates that gave way. In the midst of the confusion, Shortland entered the inner square with the whole garrison. The soldiers advanced close to the throng, when the prisoners retired towards their respective yards. Doubtless amid such a vast and motley collection of men, many taunted the soldiers, provoked them, and dared them to fire. Still they yielded before the bayonet, and entered their own yard. The gates were shut, but a large crowd remained in the passage, provoking the soldiers, from whom they were separated by an iron railing, and threatening them with vengeance. While in this position the order to fire was given. Immediately the massacre commenced. Volley after volley was poured into the terrified crowd, pushing down and trampling on each other in their haste to reach the shelter of the prisons. Men were killed in the act of supplicating mercy, others were shot down while struggling to enter the prison doors. It was cold-blooded murder, and before all the prisoners could get within the walls, over sixty were killed or wounded. When the living had all escaped to a place of shelter, and the carnage was over, the prison yard presented a ghastly spectacle. The man of sixty, the sailor in his prime, and the boy of fifteen, lay scattered around, while the groans of the wounded were borne to the ears of the enraged prisoners within. A sullen silence fell on those gloomy structures, the flags were raised half-mast, in token of mourning, and the prisoners assembled together and appointed a committee to report on the matter.

Although the coroner's jury over the slain gave a verdict of justifiable homicide, our Government took up the matter, and appointed Charles King to meet Mr. Larpent, the English commissioner, and investigate it. In their report no one was declared culpable, though it was freely admitted wrong had been done. Mr. King was severely censured for his conduct, but it was not easy to come to a just conclusion, when the testimony of the two parties were so entirely at variance. Mr. Larpent was bound to believe the assertions of Captain Shortland and his troops, as much as Mr. King those of the prisoners. Capt. Shortland declared he never gave the order to fire, and attempted to arrest it after it had begun. This, of course, the prisoners denied, some of them swearing they heard him give the order. One thing, however, is certain; Mr. King never should have let this massacre of Americans pass, with so slight a condemnation as it received at his hands. In the first place, there is good reason to doubt whether Captain Shortland believed there was any great danger at all. A hole in a wall, only large enough to admit the passage of a single man at a time, could easily be stopped up without ringing alarm bells and beating drums, especially as that hole communicated with only two out of five of the yards, and when in three of these yards the prisoners were walking about in their usual quiet manner. Nor could he believe they meditated an escape, when they had just received word that preparations were nearly completed for their restoration to liberty. Where could they escape to without money or clothing? Besides, if they wished to free themselves by violence, why did they not do it two days before, when they had completely cowed the soldiers and had only to march forth without farther resistance.

In the second place, he deserved disgrace and punishment, for allowing the soldiers to press on the multitude, when he saw them evidently, or the great mass of them, retiring to their prisons. To fire on a mob, unless they are pressing forward to assail authority and force, is brutal. If he gave the order to fire, he should have been hung. If he did not, he should be held responsible for having such undisciplined troops under his command. An act like this cannot be committed and nobody be deserving of reprehension. The commander of a garrison cannot so escape responsibility. The probability is, enraged at the conduct of the prisoners in forcing the soldiers to yield to their demands two days before, he resolved to punish the first attempt at insubordination, and irritated at the insolence and taunts of some of them, he in a fit of passion gave the order to fire. Conscience-smitten afterwards, and fearing disgrace and punishment, he endeavored to cover up the dark transaction.

Mr. King had rather, at any time, smooth over a quarrel, than increase the exasperation by dealing sternly with its causes. With his thousand noble and excellent qualities, he lacked the energy of will and unflinching severity necessary to probe such a difficulty to the bottom, and see that justice was done at whatever cost. A great wrong was committed, though doubtless with good intentions and a patriotic heart.

The following Tax Tables, showing the relative amount of taxation during the last two years of the war, are extracted from voluminous tables found in the revenue department. The whole to be found in Ingersoll's History of the War of 1812.

Internal Duties which accrued on Stills and Boilers.

STATES OR TERRITORIES. In 1814. In 1815.

Domestic materials. Foreign materials. Domestic materials. Foreign materials.

New Hampshire 3,982 50 213 90 888 69 3,015 90

Massachusetts 33,735 64 39,272 28 23,381 83 57,959 11

Vermont 31,836 54 14,263 00

Rhode Island 6,918 73 9,346 50 4,073 28 8,440 80

Connecticut 50,067 34 50,867 66 3,524 65

New York 225,979 31 6,201 45 120,522 03 10,299 23

New Jersey 54,845 67 25,033 72 4,953 90

Pennsylvania 392,536 23 56 70 228,042 13

Delaware 4,457 64 209 11

Maryland 60,378 10 28,910 87

Virginia 264,135 97 3 50 87,702 63

North Carolina 87,738 22 13,353 81

Ohio 75,596 85 33,819 16

Kentucky 141,157 50 57,807 62

South Carolina 66,941 37 1,425 00 12,615 84 2,550 77

Tennessee 77,091 59 34,244 77

Georgia 29,262 34 925 00 14,929 56 864 00

Louisiana 7,741 84 6,109 72

Illinois Territory 605 35 214 91

Michigan "

Indiana " 2,358 50 923 20

Missouri " 2,033 95 1,631 08

Mississippi " 1,862 41 958 48

District of Columbia 279 27

Total 1,621,542 86 57,444 33 760,804 22 91,608 36

Internal Duties which accrued on Spirits distilled in the United States.

STATES OR TERRITORIES. In 1815.

Domestic materials. Foreign materials.

At 20 cents per gal. At 25 cents per gal. At 20 cents per gal.

New Hampshire 861 81 137 05 4,840 81

Massachusetts 29,877 84 1,548 14 110,147 27

Vermont 18,017 56 816 14

Rhode Island 6,097 71 12,185 97

Connecticut 52,996 04 3,692 09 5,645 20

New York 199,645 92 5,672 31 15,519 65

New Jersey 69,081 42 10,329 74 5,477 20

Pennsylvania 381,484 71 38,393 24

Delaware 600 35 22,295 38

Maryland 66,177 25 32,428 34

Virginia 179,387 95 201,566 82

North Carolina 21,961 11 175,922 07

Ohio 56,653 68 15,128 83

Kentucky 114,644 40 39,569 10

South Carolina 19,640 77 68,107 41 3,391 30

Tennessee 55,284 66 56,573 59

Georgia 17,563 00 65,162 75 2,021 60

Louisiana 12,756 54 177 35

Illinois Territory 549 23 701 26

Michigan "

Indiana " 641 50 2,508 17

Missouri " 833 50 622 89

Mississippi " 583 37 1,045 90

District of Columbia

Total 1,305,340 39 742,398 57 159,229 00

Internal Duties which accrued on Carriages.

STATES OR TERRITORIES. In 1814. In 1815.

Number. Duty. Number. Duty.

New Hampshire 3,279 6,895 51 3,337 4,514 09

Massachusetts 14,934 33,995 64 14,184 21,748 49

Vermont 1,227 2,890 24 1,628 2,443 09

Rhode Island 1,232 2,877 50 722 1,123 03

Connecticut 5,262 13,419 80 6,319 10,202 46

New York 6,499 22,834 15 7,715 18,675 91

New Jersey 4,502 16,781 26 7,892 14,790 02

Pennsylvania 7,848 26,800 80 8,361 20,076 29

Delaware 2,261 5,228 21 2,081 4,018 58

Maryland 5,014 17,676 78 4,550 13,283 87

Virginia 8,067 30,401 80 7,047 20,147 24

North Carolina 5,766 14,147 44 4,859 8,907 95

Ohio 160 628 36 219 732 45

Kentucky 610 3,025 77 546 3,192 86

South Carolina 4,560 15,411 58 4,178 11,345 94

Tennessee 209 778 22 154 781 43

Georgia 2,667 7,159 75 1,948 6,095 60

Louisiana 495 1,435 83 430 1,357 27

Illinois Territory 19 66 62 18 36 75

Michigan " 31 76 00 28 60 00

Indiana " 4 6 00 5 17 44

Missouri " 18 79 00 6 47 00

Mississippi " 78 371 00 73 371 98

District of Columbia 353 2,171 21 316 1,747 57

Total 77,095 225,156 47 76,616 165,717 31

Internal Duties which accrued on Licenses to Retailers.

STATES OR TERRITORIES. In 1814. In 1815.

New Hampshire 18,449 00 24,535 64

Massachusetts 86,211 12 113,906 95

Vermont 14,417 00 22,337 54

Rhode Island 16,058 00 10,093 53

Connecticut 32,820 26 42,616 04

New York 174,748 76 201,757 84

New Jersey 29,701 00 35,607 87

Pennsylvania 160,939 21 153,018 84

Delaware 10,102 88 8,093 12

Maryland 49,256 20 58,747 36

Virginia 52,038 68 69,620 64

North Carolina 23,985 00 32,967 98

Ohio 20,574 00 26,923 23

Kentucky 19,255 00 23,789 71

South Carolina 26,599 00 28,142 91

Tennessee 10,462 00 13,280 54

Georgia 13,908 00 24,454 33

Louisiana 7,497 00 9,773 09

Illinois Territory 1,115 00 1,248 80

Michigan " 1,405 00 1,817 10

Indiana " 2,191 00 3,139 59

Missouri " 1,540 00 1,861 46

Mississippi " 3,692 00 4,837 74

District of Columbia 10,140 00 14,872 62

786,005 11 927,444 47

Internal Duties which accrued on Sales at Auction.

STATES OR TERRITORIES. In 1814. In 1815.

New Hampshire 776 07 2,245 79

Massachusetts 35,359 04 87,643 63

Vermont 14 25 75 20

Rhode Island 6,274 82 452 01

Connecticut 283 89 635 55

New York 48,480 35 332,841 64

New Jersey 3,384 32 949 84

Pennsylvania 34,630 74 229,764 45

Delaware 116 25 453 82

Maryland 9,623 15 102,758 79

Virginia 4,079 37 20,003 64

North Carolina 1,237 62 3,734 47

Ohio 549 31 636 22

Kentucky 270 92 1,371 29

South Carolina 2,631 39 18,401 94

Tennessee 63 31 291 06

Georgia 1,346 34 4,133 92

Louisiana 4,832 24 13,504 09

Illinois Territory

Michigan " 80 04 71 05

Indiana "

Missouri "

Mississippi " 210 13 750 47

District of Columbia 385 65 4,413 96

154,629 20 825,132 83

Internal Duties which accrued on Refined Sugars.

STATES OR TERRITORIES. In 1814. In 1815.

New Hampshire

Massachusetts 3,542 36 4,394 17

Vermont

Rhode Island

Connecticut

New York 7,468 12 40,279 69

New Jersey

Pennsylvania 157 03 6,127 41

Delaware

Maryland 18,619 48

Virginia 23 40 980 32

North Carolina

Ohio

Kentucky

South Carolina

Tennessee

Georgia

Louisiana 479 00 408 05

Illinois Territory

Michigan "

Indiana "

Missouri "

Mississippi "

District of Columbia 4,413 96

11,669 91 75,223 08

Internal Duties which accrued on Stamps and in lieu of Stamps by Banks.

STATES OR TERRITORIES. In 1814. In 1815.

On paper and Bank Notes. Banks in lieu of Bank Notes. On paper and Bank Notes. By Banks in lieu, &c.

New Hampshire 773 02 130 21 646 70 1,020 78

Massachusetts 20,741 47 2,880 00 5,520 74 9,339 73

Vermont 19 60 35 75

Rhode Island 5,825 15 97 29 1,131 82 1,461 01

Connecticut 11,152 07 2,445 44 9,126 97 3,015 91

New York 87,971 51 8,289 31 57,725 72 18,661 48

New Jersey 5,905 82 1,609 04 4,868 90 2,105 66

Pennsylvania 80,580 65 2,874 80 74,470 96 15,638 22

Delaware 5,570 10 669 48 3,769 01 753 54

Maryland 35,364 67 7,716 21 47,590 18 8,166 19

Virginia 36,308 41 2,516 96 33,235 88 6,061 96

North Carolina 9,132 80 1,865 94 11,909 15 2,852 40

Ohio 6,781 47 273 79 8,964 82 1,870 65

Kentucky 8,238 69 7,937 97 1,531 18

South Carolina 18,916 55 4,055 44 18,156 65 4,093 51

Tennessee 1,619 85 2,118 92 347 77

Georgia 5,736 75 900 37 6,302 95 1,070 69

Louisiana 11,151 21 384 66 10,821 53 1,920 00

Illinois Territory 7 85 4 50

Michigan " 26 10 16 35

Indiana "

Missouri " 84 10 1,191 02

Mississippi " 983 03 138 36 93 90

District of Columbia 18,053 90 2,713 95 28,569 31 4,507 92

Total 370,945 27 39,571 25 334,209 70 84,418 10

Internal Duties which accrued on Household Furniture.

STATES OR TERRITORIES. In 1815.

New Hampshire 376 00

Massachusetts 677 50

Vermont 211 50

Rhode Island 782 50

Connecticut 807 00

New York 10,877 00

New Jersey 1,527 50

Pennsylvania

Delaware 434 50

Maryland 580 50

Virginia 168 50

North Carolina

Ohio 104 50

Kentucky

South Carolina 2,854 50

Tennessee

Georgia 1,050 00

Louisiana

Illinois Territory

Michigan "

Indiana "

Missouri "

Mississippi "

District of Columbia 1,174 00

Total 21,625 50

Internal Duties which accrued on Gold and Silver Watches.

STATES OR TERRITORIES. In 1815.

New Hampshire 3,377 00

Massachusetts 4,385 50

Vermont 2,765 00

Rhode Island 2,876 00

Connecticut 5,457 00

New York 30,449 50

New Jersey 7,784 00

Pennsylvania

Delaware 2,943 00

Maryland 2,408 00

Virginia 33 00

North Carolina

Ohio 3,104 00

Kentucky

South Carolina 5,380 00

Tennessee 252 50

Georgia 2,472 00

Louisiana

Illinois Territory

Michigan "

Indiana "

Missouri "

Mississippi "

District of Columbia 1,636 00

Total 75,322 50

Internal Duties which accrued on sundry articles manufactured in the United States.

STATES OR TERRITORIES. In 1815.

New Hampshire 4,540 76

Massachusetts 56,784 89

Vermont 9,250 40

Rhode Island 910 00

Connecticut 20,504 80

New York 157,176 79

New Jersey 28,546 87

Pennsylvania 228,188 88

Delaware 10,803 31

Maryland 70,746 17

Virginia 88,154 31

North Carolina 12,801 23

Ohio 23,270 60

Kentucky 33,184 46

South Carolina 10,156 58

Tennessee 15,373 43

Georgia 8,993 25

Louisiana 1,283 03

Illinois Territory 220 14

Michigan " 39 46

Indiana " 1,064 44

Missouri " 162 68

Mississippi " 1,158 61

District of Columbia 10,309 97

Total 793,625 06

Aggregate of internal Duties which accrued.

DUTIES ON In 1814. In 1815.

Stills, from domestic materials 1,621,152 86 760,804 22

" " foreign " 57,444 33 91,608 36

Spirits, from domestic materials 2,047,738 96

" " foreign " 159,229 00

Carriages 225,158 47 165,717 31

Retailers 786,005 11 927,444 47

Sales at auction 154,629 20 825,132 83

Stamps 370,945 27 334,209 70

" Bank notes, composition 39,571 25 84,418 10

Household furniture 21,625 50

Gold and silver watches 75,322 50

Refined sugar 11,669 91 75,223 08

Articles manufactured in the United States 793,625 06

Total 3,266,576 40 6,362,099 09

Direct Taxes.

STATES. Tax of Aug. 3, 1813. Tax of Jan. 9, 1815.

New Hampshire 97,049 21 193,755 99

Vermont 98,534 52 196,789 29

Massachusetts 318,154 84 632,065 00

Rhode Island 34,758 86 69,431 78

Connecticut 118,533 63 236,507 38

New York 435,028 35 860,283 24

New Jersey 108,871 83 218,252 77

Pennsylvania 365,479 16 733,941 09

Delaware 32,294 76 63,847 32

Maryland 152,327 64 306,708 81

Virginia 369,018 44 739,738 06

North Carolina 220,962 98 440,321 11

South Carolina 151,905 48 303,810 96

Georgia 94,936 49 189,872 98

Kentucky 168,928 76 341,316 24

Tennessee 111,039 59 221,567 44

Ohio 104,150 14 208,300 28

Louisiana 31,621 43 57,519 22

District of Columbia 20,605 86

Total 3,013,596 11 6,034,634 82