He served as a deputy of the General Court of the Connecticut Colony from Norwalk in October 1658.
He came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England in 1632 on the Lyon.
[3] He originally settled in Cambridge in 1633, and moved to Hartford in 1636 along with Thomas Hooker and about one hundred others.
His home in Hartford was near the north bank of the Little River about where the west part of Pearl Street is now.
[3] He was one of the signers of the agreement for the planting Norwalk June 19, 1650, and moved there in the same year.