Before the war, he served in the state senate of the
North Carolina House of Commons in 1777 and 1778. As the war ended, he took up service again and served as a state senator from 1782 to 1789. He was one of three commissioners chosen to lay off the county seat,
Morganton, in Burke County in 1784. He was in favor of the federal constitution and participated in the North Carolina
United States Constitution conventions in
1788 and
1789. He died on March 31, 1815, and was buried at the
Quaker Meadows Cemetery in Morganton. ==References==