First lived at the foot of Buck's Elbow, on a place he bought in 1769, from Matthew Mullins, and afterwards sold to Cornelius Maupin. In 1773 he purchased from William Lewis a plantation near Ivy Depot, where he lived till 1788, when he sold it and soon thereafter removed to Kentucky. He was a magistrate and served as sheriff in 1783. He married Sarah Waller after coming to Kentucky he settled in Fayette County, about 1789. [History and Genealogies, W.H. Miller, 1907]