He studied law, and in 1815 went to Nova Scotia, where he met and married Rosella Morner, "a beautiful Roman Catholic girl" and lived out his years in modest respectability and local prominence (Ziebarth, John. Direct connections : Ziebarth-McGill ancestry. New York : Ziemag Publishing, 1997, pg. 92).
United States Consul (Ziebarth, pg. 85).