"He learned his father's trade of tanning and shoe making. In September 1682 he was chosen to teach the Grammer School in Guilford and continued to teach for several years. He was allowed thirty pounds per year- twenty to be paid by the town and ten by the scholars. This was to be paid in wheat, at five shillings and six pence, and Indian corn, at two shillings and six pence per bushel. Flax, well dressed, at one penny per pound. He was one of the patentees of the town of Guilford and "townsman" and school teacher as late as 1702. In 1672 he served as the deputy from Guilford in the General Court."
