• Birthplace given as Bernardston, Massachusetts.
1815, p 222• [He] was b. June 12, 1769, upon his grandf. Peter Newcomb’s farm, in the part of the old town of Lebanon, CT., then called the Crank or Second Society, now Columbia. When he was about 3 years old his parents removed to Bernardston, Mass., where he m. Ruth Burnham, a native of B. or of Canaan, Ct., b. Dec. 6, 1766.
1743, p 307• Came to Bernardston when three years of age.
He settled in the district of Leyden; was justice of the peace over 30 years, and representative over 20. He was a farmer and “a man of strong intellectual power.”
1790
• 1800 Census: Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts. 30110/30010. 26-45.
1820• 1820 Census: Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts. 040111/31201.
1793