From the Sons of the American Revolution application of Jehial Stewart:
His name appears first on a muster roll in Capt. Hugh McClellen's Co., Col. Samuel Williams' Regt. which marched for Boston on Lexington Alarm, reenlisted while there, May 1, 1775, in Capt. Robert Oliver's Co., Col. Ephraim Doolittle's Regt; served eight months his name appearing on a company returned of the above regiment dated Winter Hill Oct. 6, 1775; his name also appearing among the signatures to an order for bounty (?) or its equivalent in money due for eight month's service in 1775 in above company and regiment dated WInter Hill Dec. 23, 1775. From Hemenway's Vermont Historixal Gazeteer we find he faught at Bunker Hill, went with Arnold in his detachment that penetrated the wilderness by the way of Kennebeck River February 23, 1777. He reenlisted with the rank of Sergeant in Capt. Lawrence Kemp's Co., Col. Leonard's Regt. for service at Ticonderoga; discharged Apr. 10, 1777. After retiring from the Army he lived in Bristol, Vt. until 1816 when he moved to Royalton Township, O.