John Collins is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
John Collins
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4303103
Unit:
Merchant Ship Mammoth
Date of Death:
1814-10-08
State:
Pennsylvania
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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John Collins was a 24-year-old seaman from Philadelphia who served aboard the merchant ship Mammoth. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Collins died on October 8, 1814, with pneumonia recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.