Samuel Williams is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Samuel Williams
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4405811
Unit:
Merchant Ship Scorpion
Date of Death:
1815-03-15
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Samuel Williams was a 31-year-old seaman from Massachusetts who served aboard the merchant ship Scorpion. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Williams died of varicola (smallpox) on March 15, 1815. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.