James Roth is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
James Roth
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4405232
Unit:
Merchant Ship Mary
Date of Death:
1814-12-29
State:
Connecticut
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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James Roth was a 25-year-old seaman from New York who served aboard the merchant ship Mary. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Roth died of phthisis on December 29, 1814. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.