He was a clothier & a weaver.
Sources:
NEW ENGLAND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER
He was constable 1700; tithingman 1703; and selectman 1704.
VITAL STATISTICS OF FRAMINGHAM, MASS.
Simon, Aug. 30, 1717. (a. 52 y., Gravestone Record 1.)
I have not been able to find where he came from or when he came to America. He was named Freeman Sept. 7, 1639. He had land granted to him at Weymouth, Mass. on the back side of Kingoak Hill between 1642 & 1644. Later he moved to Charlestown, Mass. & probably died there.
Sources:
A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND
DIRECTORY OF THE ANCESTRAL HEADS OF NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES
FOUNDERS OF EARLY AMERICAN FAMILIES
NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO l700
GENEALOGICAL GUIDE TO THE EARLY SETTLERS OF AMERICA
GENEALOGIES AND ESTATES OF CHARLESTOWN
THE PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS
NEW ENGLAND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, VOL. III and VIII
A HISTORY OF FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, by William Barry