 He was also a member of a group of forty men, led by Ethan Allen, that captured Fort Ticonderoga.Stearns contributed £10 to a fund established to hire men to serve in the Revolutionary Army.Stearns was a soldier in the Siege of Boston for eight months and participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he stood alongside Colonel William Prescott and advised him as to when the British were near enough to fire upon, stating