 A son, Richard (born 1762), was sent to be brought up by an aunt in Wales.In the 1760s he is recorded as selling books from his place of work, on behalf of Thomas Pennant, who shared his profits with the Welsh charity school in Clerkenwell, London.He had a house in Stepney, but in 1763 he moved his family to the precincts of the Tower of London, close to where his office was.