 His native place was Gloucester, Massachusetts.Born in 1787, he died in 1851.He was of the fifth generation of the Essex County, Massachusetts family founded by Richard Littlehale, who took the "oath of supremacy and allegiance to pass for New England in the Mary & John of London, Robert Sayres, Master, 24th March, 1633," joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Ipswich, Massachusetts, and, eventually settling in Haverhill, Massachusetts, was Town Clerk for twenty years, serving also as Clerk of the Writs.