Amos Larkin is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Amos Larkin
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4201768
Unit:
Merchant Ship Reynard
Date of Death:
1815-01-29
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Amos Larkin was a 30-year-old seaman from Beverley who served aboard the merchant ship Reynard. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Larkin died on January 29, 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.