Came to Woodstock in 1808, and built the first mill in town. It stood near Abel Bacon’s. He afterwards moved to a farm in the Perham neighborhood, on which John Nason had made a beginning, and then to North Woodstock, being the first settler there. He was a blacksmith and a mill-wright, and built a mill at Pinhook in 1820. He was an ingenious man, and a man of ability, though eccentric. In politics he was a whig, and for many years the only one in town. He always represented the whig party of Woodstock in the party conventions of the county. His first wife died, and he married widow Washburn, who survived him, and married first Enoch Knight, and then Foxwell Swan.