AllenParkinson - Person Sheet
NameJonathan (twin) Whitmore
Birth18 Oct 1734, Woburn, Middlesex, MA825
Baptism15 Aug 1736, Newbury, Essex, MA826
Memoafter they moved from Woburn
Death30 Mar 1832
Notes for Jonathan (twin) Whitmore
Was on the Privateer Dalton captured by the Brits early February 1777 and inprisoned on a ship and then tried for treason and sent to Old Mill Prison in Plymouth, England (June 1677). Conditions were bad and there were several escape attempts. Some of those who escaped were impressed into the Royal Navy.
827,828Benjamin Franklin worked out a prisoner exchange to get the Dalton crew back (1779).