Dear Merry and WRG: You beat me to this one, it was on the list but I hadn't gotten to it yet.  I, too, believe that the James Whitney in the list of prisoners was the James Whitney, son of Samuel-5 Whitney and father of the Zerah Whitney in my personal line.  Somewhere, way back in the distant past I remember running across a note that I couldn't begin to find without literally weeks of searching through dozens of cartons of old paperwork that I haven't opened since moving from Kentucky in the summer of 1999.  That note said that James had been a prisoner of war -- I don't remember if it specifically mentioned the prison ship, but since that was the common place to put them, I had always thought that that was what had happend in his case. I would hate to have to try to find any honest-to-God proof of this connection of facts, but it does hang together with what I clearly remember learning probably ten years ago or more. If any further developments about these prisoners arise, I hope they get posted. Happy Hunting! Allan E. Green