As a boy, his parents brought him to South Carolina, where they settled along the west side of the Congaree River in Orangeburgh District.
[1][2][3][4] He was selected as colonel in early 1775 over the Orangenburgh District Regiment of the South Carolina militia.
[1][2] He was involved in the following engagements:[1][2] At the fall of Charleston on May 12, 1780, he was taken prisoner and was paroled until the end of the war.
He returned to his estate at Belleville, South Carolina, where he continued the pursuit as an indigo planter.
Because of poor health he moved to a medicinal springs in Virginia, where he died on November 22, 1796.