Henry Burleigh is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Henry Burleigh
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4302733
Unit:
Merchant Ship Bennett
Date of Death:
1814-12-02
State:
New York
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Henry Burleigh was a 21-year-old seaman from New York who served aboard the merchant ship Bennett. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Burleigh died on December 2, 1814, with phthisis recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.