Sylas Denham is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Sylas Denham
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4405074
Unit:
Merchant Ship Ida
Date of Death:
1814-11-14
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Sylas Denham was a 21-year-old seaman from Boston who served aboard the merchant ship Ida. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Denham died on November 14, 1814, with catarrhus recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.