Came with his wife Statira Keeney, his sister Elizabeth Townsend and her husband Anthony Hendrick, as well as Joseph Wixson and his wife Deborah Townsend to Upper Canada in 1799. They lived in York in 1799, in Scarborough in 180 and 1802, then moved to Pickering where he settled on Lot 20 on concession 9 in Pickering Township.