Samuel Harrison is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Samuel Harrison
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4303571
Unit:
Merchant Ship Hawke
Date of Death:
1815-01-06
State:
North Carolina
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Samuel Harrison was a 21-year-old seaman from North Carolina who served aboard the merchant ship Hawke. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Harrison died on January 6, 1815, with varicola (smallpox) recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.