He was born in Boston in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and graduated from Harvard University in 1774.
He worked in a business in Leicester, in 1774, moving to Worcester in 1776.
He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1810 as a Federalist, to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Jabez Upham previously that year, and he served in that capacity through 1811.
He declined to run for re-election to a full term.
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