He came with his family (he had married Lureanett or Lucenette Crosley, born 1808 of Pequot and Niantic heritage) on the steamboat United States in 1835.
("...made of logs hewn on both sides, about eight inches thick, the ends dovetailed together and crevices filled with mortar.
")[7] When Methodist circuit rider W. G. Miller came to Brothertown in the spring of 1845, he was hosted by Dick, who served as one of the stewards of the congregation.
"[8] Decades later, a white visitor recalled Dick in 1836 as "a very good singer" who served as the "starter" for the congregation's singing.
With William Fowler and W. H. Dick, he was one of three Brothertown Indians to serve in Wisconsin's legislature before the Civil War,[11] the only non-white members of that body until the 1908 election of Lucian H. Palmer.