Jacob Sawyer is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Jacob Sawyer
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4404788
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Date of Death:
1814-10-25
State:
Rhode Island
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Jacob Sawyer was a 27-year-old seaman from Rhode Island who had been impressed into service in London. During the War of 1812, he was held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Sawyer died of enteritis on October 25, 1814. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.