Jonathan Dyer is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Jonathan Dyer
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4100788
Unit:
Merchant Ship True Blooded Yankee
Date of Death:
1815-03-11
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Jonathan Dyer was a 40-year-old seaman from Cape Cod who served aboard the merchant ship True Blooded Yankee. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Dyer died on March 11, 1815, with variola recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.