 While serving with Colonel Alden at Cherry Valley during October 1778 , William Stacy was transferred to the 4th Massachusetts Regiment , though remaining with Colonel Alden . During that time period , Lieutenant William McKendry , a quartermaster in Colonel Alden 's regiment , kept a journal with firsthand accounts of the actions at Cherry Valley . One of his lighter notes concerning Colonel Stacy was a journal entry for October 6 , 1778 : " Col. Stacy and Capt. Ballard had a horse race . Col. Stacy won the bet . " However , one month later , Cherry Valley suffered war . 
