Joseph Salisbury is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Joseph Salisbury
Rank:
Passenger
Serial Number:
4506442
Unit:
Merchant Ship Jemmett
Date of Death:
1815-03-13
State:
Rhode Island
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Joseph Salisbury was a 22-year-old civilian passenger from Newport who traveled aboard the merchant ship Jemmett. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Salisbury died of fever on March 13, 1815. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.