Historical Wyoming County April 1957 - Old Fulton History

April 1957
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- Part V -
Harry S. Dou^lass-
ALEXANEER TACKELS
1755--1842
Pioneer of Middlebury, 1812
Wyoming Village Cemetery
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Tho memory of Alexander Tackels is preserved in an ancient marble
slab in Wyoming Village Cemetery, which states that he died Aug.
7, lE3i|-2, aged 87 years. He had been resident of the town about
thirty-two years. Prom a descendant, Mrs. Marjorie S. Carmody, Le
Roy,has come the following data on his military and personal career.
He was born at Palmer, Mass., June 15, 1755» the son of William and
Jean Tackels, and grandson of Alexander, the immigrant. He volunteered
during the Lexington Alarms in the spring of 1775 and marched
from the town of Rowo, now so called, Massachusetts, where he then
resided, to Roxbury where he enlisted in Capt. Bodwell's Co., David
Brewer-' s Regt. of the Mass. Line or State troops for a term of eight
months. He was in Roxbury at the time of the battle at Bunker Hill,
exchanged shots with the British guard and did duty the rest of the
time in the vicinity of Boston. He was then discharged.
In the spring of 177&, he entered as a substitute for his
brother Hugh in Capt. Hamilton's Co., Col. Samuel Brewer's Regt. of
Massachusetts troops, marched to Ticonderoga where they were quartered
some time. Prom thence, he was detached into a company of 90
rangers tinder Capt. Ferguson, placed on board the lake fleet under
General Arnold and sailed down Lake Charnplain to a station on an
island where an action subsequently took place between the British
and American fleets. At the commencement of the naval engagement,
he and his group were on board one of the vessels and were in the
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