[Illustration: _Daniel Drayton_]




PERSONAL MEMOIR Of DANIEL DRAYTON,

For Four Years And Four Months

A PRISONER (FOR CHARITY'S SAKE) IN WASHINGTON JAIL

Including A Narrative Of The

VOYAGE AND CAPTURE OF THE SCHOONER PEARL.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men
are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among
these are life, _liberty_, and the pursuit of happiness.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.


1855.




Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1853, by