William Young is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
William Young
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4405559
Unit:
Merchant Ship Levant
Date of Death:
1815-01-21
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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William Young was a 29-year-old seaman from North Carolina who served aboard the merchant ship Levant. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Young died of peripneumonia (inflammation of the lungs) on January 21, 1815. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.