The boys were highly delighted at this, and they went to work cooking and feasting upon the lady's sweet cakes, while the artillery of the contending armies was thundering in their ears, dealing out death and destruction on every hand.
[citation needed] He was among those mustered in the Company of Captain Nehemiah Houghton, Col. Nichols’ Regiment at West Point.
[citation needed] Mack settled in Tunbridge, Vermont, where he established a store in town and a farm where he lived in the country.
He left his family behind in Vermont where the children could be better schooled and established a string of merchant and business ventures in Michigan.
In Detroit during the War of 1812, he was given the captaincy of a company under General William Hull; however, the city was quickly surrendered to the British.
[3] He entered into a partnership which was known as Mack, Conant & Sibley which remained in business until 1821 when it was bought out by its chief competitor the American Fur Company.
[4] His son Almon petitioned the Probate Court of Oakland County to be released from his duties as co-executor of his father's estate and it was granted.