Richard Schew is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Richard Schew
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4100851
Unit:
Merchant Ship Amiable
Date of Death:
1814-02-08
State:
New York
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Richard Schew was a 32-year-old seaman from New York who served aboard the merchant ship Amiable. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Schew died of pneumonia on February 8, 1814. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.