On January 16, 1816, he married Hester (Hetty) Schuyler Dey (1792–1863).
In 1821, he published a History of Jemima Wilkinson (on-line version), a biography of the Public Universal Friend, described by historians as "hostile and inaccurate", and accused of having been written to influence a then-ongoing court case over land owned by the Society of Universal Friends.
[1][2][3] He was a Whig member from Ontario County of the New York State Assembly in 1838.
In 1840, he was elected a canal commissioner, and remained in office until 1842.
He, his wife, and three of their children who died in infancy were buried at Pulteney Street Cemetery in Geneva, NY.