A soldier under Genral Daniel Shays. An active and successful farmer, his land being in that part of Colrain known as Bernardston Gore. The low, long, weather-beaten house he built was still standing in 1903 (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. 99).