Samuel Parish is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Samuel Parish
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4201507
Unit:
Merchant Ship Grand Napoleon
Date of Death:
1815-04-01
State:
Virginia
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Samuel Parish was a 31-year-old seaman from Norfolk who served aboard the merchant ship Grand Napoleon. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Parish died on April 1, 1815, with phthisis recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.