Revolutionary War service.

“The thirteenth settler in New Gloucester, moving there from North Yarmouth. Mention is made of him that he came to the block house or garrison, with his wife Sarah, and there temporarily remained until a log house was built on the top of Harris Hill, where he made a home. He entered the service in the Revolution and was commissioned Captain in the Continental army. He died from sickness, at Ticondiroga, in the prime of life, leaving a widow and family of three sons and four daughters. He was a famous Indian scout and a ‘mighty hunter.’ Four of his children were among the early settlers of Paris. The mother died in her old home at the advanced age of ninety years and six months.” ~ Hist of Paris, ME.