Took the oath of a freeman 18 May 1631. He was employed as surveyor in 1634. In 1636 removed to Wethersfield. In 1637 was a Lieutenant in the Pequot War. He perhaps spent time at New Haven in 1639, and in 1646 he had leave to go home, but in a few years was again here, and in 1654 let the force of New Hampshire raised for service under Sedgwick and Leverett against the neighboring providence of New Netherlands, that was happily prevented by restoration of peace in Europe. He was at Saybrook in 1662, Stratford in 1663, and the same year at Huntingdon, on Long Island as the head of the military, but at New York after its conquest. [1]