Gravestone of the Day: Samuel Young

Samuel Young, 1800, East Bridgewater, MA

To

Perpetuate the remembrance

of

Samuel Young,

son of Mr, Robert & Molley Young.

he died at sea Oct, 22d, 1800.

AEt, 23

of a wound received in his right

Breast in an action between the

Frigate Boston & the French Berceau.

Samuel Young was one of seven Americans killed when the USS Boston captured the French corvette Berceau in 1800. I do not know whether he is buried under his monument in East Bridgewater.