Stephen Mack (1766-1826) served as a privateer with his father and brother at the age of thirteen. He served in the New Hampshire militia as a private in Captain John Trotter's Company, Colonel Rufus Putnam's 5th Regiment and then Captain Nehemiah Houghton's Company, Colonel Nichols' Regiment at West Point. Stephen Mack was born in Marlow, Cheshire County, New Hampshire on June 15, 1766. He married Temperance Bond and they had twelve children, nine daughters and three sons. He moved his family to Michigan in the 1820s, briefly living in Detroit before settling in Pontiac. He is known as the founder of Pontiac and represented Oakland County in the first Michigan Territorial Council of 1824. Stephen Mack died November 11, 1826, and is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan.
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