The first minister of Princeton, was born in Middlesex near Salem, 1738, was a graduate of Cambridge, 1760.

Settled in Princeton, Massachusetts in 1767, on the Fuller Farm north of Wachusett, on the Westminster Road. He was dismissed and left town in 1776, but afterwards returned and spent several years on this spot.

In 1788, represented the town at the Convention which adopted the Federal Constitution. In 1796 he moved to a farm in Merrimac, N.H., where he died in 1805. He and his wife, Sarah Williams had ten children.