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Person Details
Last Name
ALDRICH
First Name
JOHN, DR
Maiden
Relation
H/O ELIZABETH THURSTON
Cemetery Number
SK006
Cemetery Name
OLD FERNWOOD CEMETERY
Birth Day
1
Birth Month
APR
Birth Year
1760
Death Day
22
Death Month
FEB
Death Year
1843
War
REVOLUTION
Gravestone Details
Section
A
Lot
Map
00047
Stone Material
marble
Condition
fair
Shape
monument
Carving
no carving
Legibility
fair
Number of Graves on Stone
8
Stone Height (inches)
Stone Width (inches)
Exists?
Last Seen Date
2014
Carver
Notes/Misc Details
Notes
"b. Preston CT" "He served as a soldier during the Revolutionary War under General Washington, was engaged in the battles of White Plains & Long Island NY,was taken prisoner while serving on board a Yankee privateerand put in confinement on board the noted British prison ship Jersey for 12 days. He was from there transferred to the flag ship of the British fleet and taken to Kingston Jamaka W I and there remained until the close of the war in charge of a British hospital." died: KINGSTON RI [SAR: in Battles of White Plaine and Long Island; Taken Prisoner while onprivateer "Yankee". Confined to prison ship "Jersey" 12 days and then sent to Jamaica, West Indies.]
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