after 1746 his residence was at westenhuck, near great barrington, massachusetts. in 1755, during king george's war, he, with most of his fighting men, traveled to albany and entered the english service under sir william johnson, by march 1758, he was in stockbridge, massachusetts, serving as town constable, although it appears he continued to frequent the ancestral lands around wiccopee in dutchess county, new york.