Joseph Tremerin is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Joseph Tremerin
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4506149
Unit:
Merchant Ship Mars
Date of Death:
1815-06-04
State:
Pennsylvania
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Joseph Tremerin was a 19-year-old seaman from Philadelphia who served aboard the merchant ship Mars. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Tremerin died of hepatitis on June 4, 1815. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.