Journal of A. Tyler in Revolutionary War

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"A JOURNAL OF A. TYLER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

" I joined the army at Boston, and was in the whole siege.

" When the eighth month was out, I enlisted for one year. Then marched for Canida. My time was out the last day of December, 1776. Then I enlisted for three years under Capt. Silas Burbank in the Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment, Commanded by Col. Samuel Bauer (Bruer).

" Left the Army — Colo. Sprouts took command, all my officers are dead — both General and Field, Captains and Sebolton Officers — except Captain Mains, he was a Lieutenant — the year 1779. Promoted to a Capt in Sprouts Regiment and continued during the war. I received an honorable discharge some time in March 1780. Then in order to make up my losses, I thought I would try the sea. I shipped on Board of a 20 gun ship Capt Jeremiah O'Brien commander. This ship was named the Horrable — Built in Newburyport — out about thirty days, and was captured by two of the enemy's Frigates and then carried in to New York and put on board of the old ship Jersey and remained there three months — suffered everything but Death. I made my escape by swimming the second day of December, got on the Island betwixt the two channels at Hellgate, there we lie in Bushes all the next day. When it came night we began to walk around the Island to see what we could find. We found a field of com where this had been planted, and we hunted for the gleanings of the field and found some short nubins — and this we ate raw, and a sweet morsel it was to us — 9, of us only. Then we were at a stand how to make our escape. The enemy all around us — we hunted around the Island — found a rail fence and took them and made a small raft — got each of us a small paddle, which I made with my knife — then we shipped on board our raft and went through the whole British fleat that lay oposite the City of N. York, and got ashore after great effort on the Jersey side. I was in the siege of Boston. Then went to Canida in '76. Was in the defeat at Ticonderoga. In the Battle of Hubbardston — in both Battles taken Burgoine and at the storming of Stoney Points under Gen. Wayne. Then in the Battle of Monmouth. All this service I did naked and without pay."1

Captain Abraham Tyler was my fourth great-grandfather.

Barbara Mattoon 



1. The Tyler Genealogy: The Descendants of Job Tyler of Andover, Massachusetts, 1619-1700, Willard Tyler Brigham, Cornelius B. Tyler and Rollin U. Tyler, 1912, p. 84.


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