Re: CONCERNING THE NAME JOHN MATROSS HACKER
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CONCERNING THE NAME JOHN MATROSS HACKER
2/15/00
Thank you Joan Shacklette, for bringing out the information I have been trying to get noticed for more than a year.You have everything 100% correct, just as you stated.The John Hacker this colonial record refers to, was the son of son of William Hacker, andwho served with Rogers and Clark in their Indiana and Illinois campaign during the Revolutionary War. A matross was actually the rank of the person who was responsible for swabbing out the old, muzzle loading cannon after it was fired.It is a total disservice to both of these men to take information from one and pin it onto the other.John Hacker, son of Julius was 8 years old when the Revolutionary War started and much too young to ever have served.Although, he does say in a Court Deposition in 1857 that he was old enough to wield a gun and protect Shelby's Fort, along with other boys and old men of Sullivan County North Carolina while the soldiers were away fighting the Battle of King's Mountain.And, for which he was given some presents and money, but never enrolled in the army; they didn't take 12 year-old boys.
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