He had his son Thomas baptized at Second Baptist Church Newport, July 21, 1772, and his wife and the following children Aug. 1, 1774; James, fourteen years; Abigail, twelve years; Mary, nine years; and Hannah six years.
Aug. 25, 1785, he of Providence, and Mary Davis, widow, sold to Daniel Lyman, for five shillings, a lot of land in Newport, bounded westerly on Broad street, easterly on Spring street, northerly on land of John G. Wanton, and southerly on land of Isaac Lawton.
The Providence Gazette, in noticing his death, states that he was a sraugrer at the Custom House from the time that Rhode Island came into the Union until his death. Administration on his estate was taken by his widow Abigail and grandson Samuel Weeden Coates. The account showed a house on Planet street renting for forty dollars a year. Receipts were given by heirs.