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Pvt Jacob Mattocks
BIRTH 28 Nov 1783
Venango County, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 22 Jan 1814 (aged 30)
Fort Covington, Franklin County, New York, USA
BURIAL Unknown
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MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 1
FLOWERS 6
Aged: 30 years, 1 months, and 24 days.
Married: Margaret Pearl Mattocks on 3 May 1803 at Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA. Age: 19
WAR OF 1812
Jacob (age 29) enlisted 18 May 1813 for 5 years as a Private in the 22nd Pennsylvania Infantry of the US Army, War of 1812, a company commanded by Colonel Hugh Brady and Captain Thomas Lawrence. A muster roll of Captain Thomas Lawrence in 1813 is marked "Camp Allegheny." The regiment was authorized by Congress under the Act of June 26, 1812.
Jacob's entire regiment was at the capture of Fort George, 27 May 1813 and then entered the action at French Creek, New York, November 1 and 2, 1813.
After the St. Lawrence campaign had ended, late 1813, with the British victory at the Battle of Crysler's Farm, the defeated American Army under Major General James Wilkinson went into winter quarters at (Fort Covington,) French Mills, Franklin, New York, only just inside the United States. The British commanders feared that the Americans could threaten the British line of communication along the St. Lawrence River from this position, but Wilkinson made no attempt to do so.
His army arrived at French Mills with few supplies, and because of poor roads, lack of transportation and sick animals and inefficiency of the Quartermaster General's Department, it was almost impossible to supply the army in this advanced position. Sickness rapidly increased until there were no less than 450 sick in squalid conditions in a hospital in Malone, New York and many more in French Mills. On 22 Jan 1814, Jacob died and was removed 28 Feb 1814 to Burlington, Vermont.
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1783 - 1814 (30 years)