He was later commissioned as an officer in the 1st Carleton Regiment and was made Deputy Auditor General.
By 1838, the corporation was essentially dissolved and Thomas was appointed Crown land Agent for the Home District.
He was shown to be in arrears (the greatest default in pre-Confederation Ontario) and so was forced to cede all his property to the government.
[1] The Brewery was sold to Patrick Cosgrave in 1863 and continued making beer for another eighty years.
He married twice, first to Georgina Catherine Lodge Wilcocks by who he had one surviving child; his second marriage was to Catherine, daughter of William Bancks, the founder of Bewdley, Ontario, by whom there were many other children, including Dr. Allen Mackenzie Baines the first Physician-in-Chief of the Hospital for Sick Children.