Rank: Private
Unit: D Co, 2d Dragoons
Enlisted: September 17, 1837 in Albany, New York
Date of birth: 1816
Hometown: Surrey, , England
Occupation prior to enlistment: Gardener
Campaign: Second Seminole War
Died: 23 July 1839
Age at death: 22 yrs
Cause of death: Killed in action
Location of fatality: Calooshatchie, Florida,
Place of interment: Saint Augustine National Cemetery in Saint Augustine, Florida
Notes: Harney massacre. On July 23, 1839 the Seminoles under Chakaika and Hospetarke attacked and burned the trading post on the Caloosahatchee River where it meets the bay, at the modern city of Cape Coral, killing most of the soldiers and settlers there. Of the lives lost that day, under command of Colonel William S. Harney, only the Dade Massacre and the Battle of Okeechobee had more casualties during the Seminole War.