Service in the Revolutionary War

I found this info:

"JOSEPH CHEEVER, Chelsea ..... 1752 - 1830
Sergeant, Capt. Sprague's Company, which marched at the Lexington alarm; service fifteen days; also First Lieutenant, same Company, Col. Gerrish's Regiment, May-Dec., 1775; commanded his Company at the battle of Bunker Hill; a bullet passed through his hat; also Capt. Barnabas Dodge's Company of same Regiment (Twenty-sixth); served in the campaign of 1776; was in the battles of White Plains and Trenton; in command of his Company until mustered out in 1777; commission as Captain, signed by John Hancock in 1793, now in Malden Public Library."

From: http://dunhamwilcox.net/ma/mass_rev_3.htm

More about his service is at:
http://www.olgp.net/chs/people/genealogy/whoweretheysz/whoweretheys...

From: http://www.archive.org/stream/newenglandhisto62unkngoog/newenglandh...

The maternal line is as follows : Joseph'
and Rose (Clerke) Hills, John' (son of SamueP) and Mary' (Hills)
Waite, Joseph' and Mercy (Tuils) Waite, Thomas* and Debor^
(Sargeant) Waite, Thomas* and Mary (Sprague) Waite, Thomas'
and Lydia (Hitchins) Waite, Thomas^ and Hannah (Cheever)
Waite, MartiKa-Skinner' Waite. Through Hannah (Cheever)
Waite, Mr. Corey traced his ascent to Rev. Thomas Cheever, the
first minister of Rumney Marsh (Chelsea^, and his more famous son,
Ezekiel Cheever, the New England scnoolmaster ; also to Capt.
Joseph Cheever who led his company at Bunker Hill and Trenton,

Interesting stuff!!
Jessie German