Sylvester Gilbert, of Hebron, with whom for a short time he practiced his profession, after having been admitted, in Sept., 1803, to the bar of Tolland County, Connecticut.
In 1804 he removed to Glastonbury, Connecticut, and in 1808 to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he practiced his profession till the spring of 1845.
He represented Stockbridge, on several occasions, in the Massachusetts Legislature, was at one time a member of the electoral college, and in 1843 he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the State of Massachusetts to assist in setting off land to the settlers on the N E. boundary of Maine, in accordance with the Webster–Ashburton Treaty.
He subsequently returned to Stockbridge, and in 1853 retired from active business, passing the remainder of his life with his children in different places.
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