Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau i Kingston, Ulster County, New York; i haere ki nga kura noa, i puta mai i te Whare Wananga o Columbia, New York City; i ako i te ture; i whakaaetia ki te kaari me te mahi; i neke ki Florida ka noho ki Pensacola, Florida; i mahi hei rangatira i te
Indian war of 1837; member of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida; appointed district attorney in 1841; appointed United States district attorney for the Apalachicola district in Florida in 1842; associate justice of the Florida Supreme Court 1846<unk>1850; elected judge of the circuit court in January 1851; member of the Florida House of Representatives; served in the Florida State Senate; collector of customs for the port of Apalachicola; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1857, to January 21, 1861, when he withdrew; judge of the district court under the Confederate Government 1862<unk>1865; commissioned by the legislation of 1877 to prepare a digest of the State laws of Florida; died in Marianna, Florida; burial in St. Luke's Episcopal Cemetery.