Elisha Toby is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Elisha Toby
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4100794
Unit:
Merchant Ship True Blooded Yankee
Date of Death:
1814-03-09
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Elisha Toby was a 24-year-old seaman from New York who served aboard the merchant ship True Blooded Yankee. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Toby died of heart failure on March 9, 1814. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.