In 1821 he settled in Clinton, in the central part of Georgia, and in June, 1823, he moved to the city of Augusta, where the rest of his life was spent.
He opened the Augusta Law School and maintained it with good success until it was interrupted by the affliction caused by the death of his eldest son in 1854.
In 1851 he was elected to the judgeship of the city court of Augusta, and discharged the duties of that office for fifteen years.
She died October 6, 1860, having borne him two sons (the elder a graduate of Yale in the Class of 1845) and one daughter.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1883 Yale Obituary Record.