He was the founder of the family in New England. In Rhode Island he was a house carpenter by trade,and the items given above show that he practiced the same trade in Hampton, New Hampshire where he arrived from England. He probably fled to Rhode Island at some time between July 8 and September 9, 1645, to escape punishment for his misdeeds. This experience seems to have had a salutary effect on him, for thenceforth his life in Rhode Island was, so is known, entirely decorous. In 1648/9 he kept the prison in Newport. He was a general sergeant. In 1655, his name occurred on the roll of freeman in Newport. He appeared to have rendered service to the Colony in King Philip's War, for on October 31, 1677, he was one of the grantees of the East Greenwich lands, for service in that war.
He was the founder of the family in New England. In Rhode Island he was a house carpenter by trade,and the items given above show that he practiced the same trade in Hampton, New Hampshire where he arrived from England. He probably fled to Rhode Island at some time between July 8 and September 9, 1645, to escape punishment for his misdeeds. This experience seems to have had a salutary effect on him, for thenceforth his life in Rhode Island was, so is known, entirely decorous. In 1648/9 he kept the prison in Newport. He was a general sergeant. In 1655, his name occurred on the roll of freeman in Newport. He appeared to have rendered service to the Colony in King Philip's War, for on October 31, 1677, he was one of the grantees of the East Greenwich lands, for service in that war.
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