 He and his wife, Abigail Lydia Mott, opened a Quaker school in Rahway, N.J. soon after they were married 1813.In 1815, they moved to New York City to take charge of a school under the auspices of the Friends Monthly Meeting.By 1820, they had opened their own boarding school for boys first in Flushing, and then in Westchester Village, NY.