Joel Perigo is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Joel Perigo
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4405064
Unit:
Merchant Ship Ida
Date of Death:
1814-11-24
State:
Connecticut
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Joel Perigo was born on April 30, 1787, in Hanover, New London County, Connecticut. He was as a 27-year-old seaman who served aboard the merchant ship Ida. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Perigo died on November 24, 1814, with catarrhus recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.