[1] On completing his theological course he was commissioned by the board of missions of the Presbyterian assembly "to preach to destitute places in Georgia".
[1] In 1822 he was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian church at Seneca Falls, New York, where he remained until 1835.
In 1838 he published a reply to Professor Moses Stuart on the constitution of the United States in its relation to slavery.
In 1842 he prepared the memorial of Chenango County, New York, to the state senate, praying that the bill for the abolition of capital punishment might not become a law, by the timely reception of which the final passage of the bill was prevented.
He was also the author of an article on the Scripture argument for capital punishment, parts of which were printed in the "Genesee Evangelist" of 1849.