Both himself and wife were members of the Topsfield church and dismissed, but he "without recommendation," Dec. 6th 1685. But on the 16th of the same month he was one of seven males mentioned as having entered into covenant to form the church in Dunstable. He had become a proprietor, one of the first fourteen proprietors, of that new town, some three years before, Nov. 30, 1682. Jonathan Tyng deeded lands to him and to Isaac, John Jr., and Thomas Cummings at the same time, Jan. 29, 1683. He was selectman in 1682, and for several years town clerk.
