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Note: Moved to Granville Co., NC with his parents in 1774 (as stated in his Revolution War Pension Application). Granted a pension of $30 per year Nov 28, 1832.
After the war ended, he began to buy a great deal of land in Granville Co., NC, mostly in Dutch District along Cedar Cree. Existing records indicate that he did not accumulate this land for farming, but rather did so as a business, as in each case he retained the property for only a short time and then sold at a considerable profit. By 1825 he had sold all but 73 acres, which he retained until his death. Left a peculiar will in which he left his estate to "my friend Elijah Hester, to be used for the benefit of my daughter Lucretia and my daughter-in-law Lucretia, wife of my son Peter, and after their death, to the heirs of their body." The will would seem to indicate that of all his children, perhaps only Peter and Lucretia survived him.
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