Thomas Simmons is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Thomas Simmons
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4405571
Unit:
Merchant Ship Saratoga
Date of Death:
1815-01-20
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Thomas Simmons was a 55-year-old seaman from New Bedford who served aboard the merchant ship Saratoga. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Simmons died of phthisis on January 20, 1815. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.