Two of his sons attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, one of whom was expelled for his participation in the 1826 cadet riot, and one of whom was killed in a duel shortly after graduation.

[1] He was commissioned in the regular army after the war and supervised the official transfer of the Natchez District from Spanish military control to the United States in 1797.

[2] He settled in Adams County, Mississippi and lived near Half-Way Hill, so-called because it stood near the midpoint on the road between Natchez and Second Creek.

Near by Colonel Osmun, another old military friend of similar political opinions, the veteran Maj. Isaac Guion, and with these two, and other influential gentlemen, he had daily consultations.

No sterner and truer patriots lived than these two veteran soldiers, and they reposed unshaken faith in the friend whom they had seen so often tested in the time that tried men's souls; Colonel Osmun lived at the place now owned by Dr. Stanton, and Major Guion resided at the foot of the Half-way Hill, and there was a rural path between the two places trellised with vines and shaded by evergreens.