Samuel Boardby is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Samuel Boardby
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4404356
Unit:
Merchant Ship Fiere Facia
Date of Death:
1815-03-29
State:
Maryland
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Samuel Boardby was a 29-year-old seaman from Baltimore who served aboard the merchant ship Fiere Facia. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Boardby died on March 29, 1815, with variola recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.