John Whittan is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
John Whittan
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4505895
Unit:
Merchant Ship Harlequin
Date of Death:
1815-01-18
State:
New Hampshire
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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John Whittan was a 20-year-old seaman from Portsmouth who served aboard the merchant ship Harlequin. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Whittan died of phthisis (tuberculosis) on January 18, 1815. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.