Ebenezer Simonds is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Ebenezer Simonds
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4404850
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Date of Death:
1815-01-12
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Ebenezer Simonds was a 20-year-old seaman from Newburyport who voluntarily surrendered to British authorities. During the War of 1812, he was held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Simonds died of smallpox (variola) on January 12, 1815. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.