Nicholas Smith is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Nicholas Smith
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4404958
Unit:
Merchant Ship Herald
Date of Death:
1815-01-09
State:
Virginia
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Nicholas Smith was a 25-year-old seaman from Richmond who served aboard the merchant ship Herald. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Smith died of smallpox (variola) on January 9, 1815. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.