 He was granted on what is now Point Piper and built Henrietta Pavilion at the large cost of £10,000.He was appointed a magistrate by Governor Macquarie in 1819, was chairman of directors of the Bank of New South Wales, sat on the local committee of the Australian Agricultural Co., was president of the Scots Church committee, and was involved in many social and sporting activities.As well as Point Piper he had at Vaucluse, at Woollahra and Rose Bay, a farm of at Petersham, at Neutral Bay, at Botany Bay, at Bathurst, in Van Diemen's Land, and an of commercial land in George Street, Sydney.