From the title-page of Timothy's ‘Roman-Catharist,’ it appears that he was preacher at Steeple, Essex, in 1621, but he does not seem to have held the vicarage.
In 1623 he became perpetual curate of Pontesbright or Chapel, Essex, and held this living till 1650.
On 19 August 1636 he was appointed to the vicarage of All Saints', Sudbury, Suffolk.
In 1648 he was a member of the twelfth or Lexden classis in the presbyterian organisation for Essex, and in the same year he signed the ‘Testimony’ of Essex ministers as ‘pastor of Chappel.’ He probably died in 1650.
His son Samuel was admitted vicar of Great Tey, Essex, on 27 January 1637–8, on the presentation of his uncle Nehemiah.