He spent some years working on a projected county history of Berkshire: it remained unfinished, but the manuscript was eventually published posthumously in 1783 by Richard Gough as Collections toward a Parochial History of Berkshire.
He worked on a planned history of Berkshire County for several years, but the work was never completed and was only published after his death in 1783 by Richard Gough, who compiled it as "Collections toward a Parochial History of Berkshire."