Jesse March is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Jesse March
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4405691
Unit:
Merchant Ship McDonough
Date of Death:
1815-02-05
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Jesse March was a 29-year-old seaman from Massachusetts who served aboard the merchant ship McDonough. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. March died on February 5, 1815, with peripneumonia recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.