A soldier in an artillery company from Northfield, Mass. with his brother John under Capt. Elijah Mattoon Jr., that started for Boston in Sept. 1814 (Severance, B. Frank. Genealogy and biography of the descendants of Walter Stewart of Scotland and of John Stewart who came to America in 1718 and settled in Londonderry, N.H. Greenfield, Mass. : T. Morey & Son, 1905, pg. 70)