David Read is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
David Read
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4404069
Unit:
Merchant Ship America
Date of Death:
1814-11-14
State:
Maine
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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David Read was a 21-year-old seaman from Townsend who served aboard the merchant ship America. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Read died on November 14, 1814, with rubella recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.