Resident of Franklin, Massachusetts.

Son of Ebenezer and Margaret (Pond) Guild of Wrentham, Massachusetts. Married Lydia Whittemore (1772).

First letter in correspondence: September 8, 1786; Thomas W. Baldwin, comp., Vital Records of Wrentham, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (2 vols., Boston, 1910), i, 104, ii, 309, 455.