[3] He was purchased by Joseph H. Lumpkin the chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court in 1848, and while still enslaved worked as a tailor and acquired some property.

[3] He married Laura Wright in 1854 and when the American Civil War started he and his family moved back to the Judge Andrew's home where they remained until the end in 1865 by that point they already had six children together.

[3] At the end of the war he showed his appreciation for his freedom by presenting to the 144th New York regiment an American flag he had made.

[4] He failed to get re-elected in 1871, 1872, and 1879 meaning that they were the last black people to be elected to any office in the city until 1953, over eighty three years later.

[4][5] He died leaving an estate worth between $12,000 and $15,000 mostly from property with most of that being a plot of land on Edgewood avenue which he had purchased for less than $300.