William Brown is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
William Brown
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4404628
Unit:
Merchant Ship Alfalfa
Date of Death:
1815-07-20
State:
New York
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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William Brown was a 30-year-old seaman from New York who served aboard the merchant ship Alfalfa. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Brown died on July 20, 1815, with phthisis recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.