After his service he was given the freedom he wanted. Then in 1805 he married a widow, Mary (Will) Wilbore, daughter of Nuff Will and Sarah Moho (Mohho), a Native American woman of the Ponkapoag tribe, and settled in what is now Canton, Massachusetts. In marrying her, he inherited the  of land owned by her previous husband, Jacob Wilbor.
After completing his military service, he was granted the freedom he had long sought. He then married Mary (Will) Wilbore, a widow and daughter of Nuff Will and Sarah Moho (Mohho), a Native American woman from the Ponkapoag tribe, in 1805, and settled in what is now Canton, Massachusetts. As part of their marriage, he inherited the land owned by her late husband, Jacob Wilbor.