Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Yakubu ya yi nazarin doka tare da Theodore Sedgwick, ya zauna a Windsor, Vermont a 1780, kuma ya sami shiga cikin mashaya. Ya shiga cikin 'yan bindiga a lokacin juyin juya halin Amurka, kuma ya yi aiki a kamfanin da Kyaftin John Mercy ya umurta a lokacin da aka tattara kwanaki uku a watan Maris na shekara ta 1781. Janar Jacob Bayley na Newbury ne ya kira 'yan bindiga a gabashin Vermont don amsa rahoton sojojin Biritaniya
daga Kanada da ke aiki a yankin Newbury, amma rahoton ya tabbatar da rashin tushe.