When he was a young man, he made several voyages to the West Indies, and having studied navigation, he purchased a sloop for the purpose of trading on his own account. During one of his voyages his vessel was seized and burned by the Br itish, and with his brother Samuel, who was wtih him at the time, he was taken prisoner to halifax. When released on parole, he returned to Middletown and en gaged in farming on the land owned by his mother and some additional land he ha d purchased. In the spring of 1793, he bought 150 acres of land at Warren, mov ed his family there, and commenced manufacturing charcoal for several ironworks in the vicinity. He was an honest upright man, and a member of the episcopal Church at Trinity Parish, Milton, which ediface he had taken part in building. The Trinity Parish was more than two miles from his residence but he still a ttended church regularily. he and his children were all married in this church and all of his children were baptised. The solemn rites of its burial service were performed, when, on a cold blustering day, February 2, 1822, his body was committed to its last resting place, the Reverend Isaac Jones officiating, who said, in his funeral discourse, that a pillar had been removed from the church mililtant.