Timothy Stanwood is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Timothy Stanwood
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4202145
Unit:
Merchant Ship Aboukir
Date of Death:
1815-03-20
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Timothy Stanwood was a 23-year-old seaman from Newburyport who served aboard the merchant ship Aboukir. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Stanwood died of smallpox (variola) on March 20, 1815. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.