Iris -- It was so nice of you to respond to my questions about Halifax Prison and Elligood Mills. My family record says that ...."Elligood Mills was born Aug 26 1744 in Portsmouth, NH, and died Jan 6 1832 in Waterborough, Maine. He was a Master Mariner of Biddeford & Waterborough, Maine. During the Revolutionary War he was an officer of the privateer Grand Turk, and was a prisoner of war at Halifax for nearly 5 years from 1777 to 1781. His first wife was Mary Dyer and his second wife was Lucy McLucas." Since he was a prisoner of war, but did not die in prison, where should I begin searching for a record of his imprisonment during this time frame? Would there be information available on this vessel; i.e., was it captured there? Kindest regards, Sherry Iris Shea <ishea@eastlink.ca> wrote: Sherry, someone forwarded your query about a person/privateer in the Revolutionary War. The prison in Halifax housed the American prisoners of war during the War of 1812. Was your privateer active during that war, and do you think he may have been imprisoned between 1812 and 1815? The name of the prison was Melville Island. The War of 1812 Society of Ohio and Scott Baker have published all of the names (a little over 8000) of those who were held as prisoners of war during the War of 1812 and the volumes (I think there may be as many as three), are in the major libraries. If you are not able to find those publications, let me know and I can look up the name Elligood Mills to see if he is listed. We have the publications in our local library in Halifax, NS. The prison itself, a wooden one, burned down in 1935. I, along with co-author, Heather Watts, wrote the history of Meliville Island in book called Deadman's: Melville Island and Its Burial Ground. In our book we listed only those Americans who died in captivity (195) and were buried on nearby Deadman's Island, and those who escaped. Each year, on Memorial Day, the American Consul general holds a ceremony on Deadman's Island, and a monument has been placed there with all of the names of those who died. Iris Shea