From Braintree, Mass, a soldier at Saco in 1696, he received a land grant in 1703 and lived in what is now Eliot, Me.

Because their first child was born so soon after their marriage, they were fined 10 shillings apiece by the York County Grand Jury on 6 Oct 1702 for fornication.(Generations p. 99) They were taken into the First Church of Berwick 15 Jun 1735.