William Adams is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
William Adams
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4404848
Unit:
Merchant Ship Hawk
Date of Death:
1815-04-24
State:
North Carolina
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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William Adams was a 22-year-old seaman from North Carolina who served aboard the merchant ship Hawk. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Adams died on April 24, 1815, with variola (smallpox) recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.