A CENOPATH MEMORIAL on Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Alexander Scammell
Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915
Name: Alexander Scammell
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 22 Mar 1747
Event Place: Milford, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
Event Place (Original): Milford, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Gender: Male
Father's Name: Dr. Samuel Scammell, FAG #83206240.
Mother's Name: Jane
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Harvard Class of 1769
Died of wound received at Yorktown VA September 30, 1781
Reportedly buried among the Revolutionary War Graves located in the garden of the Governor's Palace (See Find a Grave # 51790804).

Alexander Scammell, Adjutant-General of the American armies, and the Colonel of the First Regiment of New Hampshire, while he commanded a chosen corps of Light Infantry at the successful siege of Yorktown, in Virginia, was in gallant performance of his duty as field officer of the day, unfortunately captured, and afterwards insidiously wounded of which wound he expired at Williamsburgh, October 1781 Anno Ætatis.

What though no friend could ward thine early fall,Nor guardian angels turn the treacherous ball;Bless'd shade, be soothed! Thy virtues all are known--
Thy fame shall last beyond this mouldering stone, Which conquering armies, from their toils return, Read to thy glory while thy fate they mourn.

The inscription was written by Scammell's friend, Col. David Humphreys of Rhode Island.

A CENOPATH MEMORIAL on Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Alexander Scammell
Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915
Name: Alexander Scammell
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 22 Mar 1747
Event Place: Milford, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
Event Place (Original): Milford, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Gender: Male
Father's Name: Dr. Samuel Scammell, FAG #83206240.
Mother's Name: Jane
********
Harvard Class of 1769
Died of wound received at Yorktown VA September 30, 1781
Reportedly buried among the Revolutionary War Graves located in the garden of the Governor's Palace (See Find a Grave # 51790804).

Alexander Scammell, Adjutant-General of the American armies, and the Colonel of the First Regiment of New Hampshire, while he commanded a chosen corps of Light Infantry at the successful siege of Yorktown, in Virginia, was in gallant performance of his duty as field officer of the day, unfortunately captured, and afterwards insidiously wounded of which wound he expired at Williamsburgh, October 1781 Anno Ætatis.

What though no friend could ward thine early fall,Nor guardian angels turn the treacherous ball;Bless'd shade, be soothed! Thy virtues all are known--
Thy fame shall last beyond this mouldering stone, Which conquering armies, from their toils return, Read to thy glory while thy fate they mourn.

The inscription was written by Scammell's friend, Col. David Humphreys of Rhode Island.