Gideon Porter is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Gideon Porter
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4404737
Unit:
Merchant Ship Impressed
Date of Death:
1815-03-22
State:
Rhode Island
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Gideon Porter was a 32-year-old seaman from Rhode Island who served aboard the merchant ship Impressed. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Porter died on March 22, 1815, with variola recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.