 He received his ticket of leave in 1843 and was working on Lake George but became involved in a dispute between his employer and his employer's neighbour and was banished to live beyond the limits of location; in this case west of the Murrumbidgee River.In 1841 he married Anne Russell.After five years of living in the Cotter Valley, he was conditionally pardoned in 1847 and moved to Michelago.