Called a man of more than ordinary education.

Settled at Exeter, Essex County, Ma. in 1640

Townsman, 1647

He and wife (Annah) witnessed against Edw. Hilton in 1645.
In 1647 he won a suit against John Legate and Humphrey Wilson, and Legate won against him and the Walls in a suit over cruelty to his cattle.

In Hampton he and Robert Hethersay had cross suits for defamation, he charging that Hethersay had raised an evil report of his deceased wife; he also sued for breach of contract in carrying her to O. R. (Oyster River?) in a canoe and not bringing her back, as agreed.

About 1650 he married widow Mary Hauxworth of Salisbury and moved there; taxed 1650

Died in Salisbury, Essex Co., Ma.

In June of 1648, on road from Dover, NH to Exeter, NH, she was waylaided, robbed, brutally murdered, and then thrown in the river. On 7 September 1648, her widowed husband sued one Robert Hithersay for "raising evil reports of his deceased wife, and for breach of promise in carrying his wife to Oyster River in a canoe and not bringing her up in a canoe again". Hithersay, who roved from Concord to Lynn, Exeter, and York, was apparently a wayward character, and may have been suspected of the murder. The book "The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin" is based on this crime and its aftermath.