Joseph Butts is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Joseph Butts
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4101060
Unit:
Merchant Ship Fair American
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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Joseph Butts was a 22-year-old seaman from New York who served aboard the merchant ship Fair American. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Butts died on December 2, 1814, with suicide recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.