His wife and himself were both liberally educated in England.

He was the late editor of the New Times, a weekly paper established since the abolition of slavery and devoted chiefly to the interests of the colored community.

It was the first periodical and the only one which advocated the rights of the colored people, and this it did with the utmost fearlessness and independence.

It boldly exposed oppression, whether emanating from the government house or originating in the colonial assembly.

The measures of all parties, and the conduct of every public man, were subject to its scrutiny, and when occasion required, to its stern rebuke.