A lokacin da yake da shekaru goma sha bakwai ya shiga matsayin dan bindiga a cikin sojojin Pennsylvania kuma ya yi tafiya tare da Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec a 1775.
Tabbas, mafi rikitarwa na jumla ita ce "A shekara goma sha bakwai ya shiga aikin bindiga a cikin sojojin jihar Pennsylvania kuma ya yi tafiya tare da Benedict Arnold a kan Quebec; wanda aka kama a lokacin da aka yi ƙoƙari ya mamaye birnin a ranar 1 ga Janairu, 1776, ya kasance a tsare har tsawon watanni tara. "