 After his admission to the bar, in 1798 he became associated with the law school's founder, Tapping Reeve as professor in that institution.In the same year, he married Sally McCurdy Tracy, daughter of Senator Uriah Tracy, with whom he had nine children.Gould was raised in 1816 to the office of judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, from which he was displaced in 1818 by the adoption of the new constitution.