He was a man of consequence; patented more than 10,000 acres in the preset counties of Amherst and Nelso, Virginia; also patented land in Patrick county, 1745. on account of the destruction of most of the records of Caroline County, where he resided, it has been difficult to learn much concerning his life in the Colony. He served as a colonel in the English or Colonial Armies and also attained the rank of Captain; and family tradition states that he met his death while he and his men were crossing the Potomac on a flat-boat but the date of his death is recorded as Sept. 27, 1748. 

On June 10, 1726 he was married to Rose Berryman, daughter of Major Benjamin and Elizabeth (Newton) Berryman. 

