It is likely that he received other private commissions in succeeding years whose end products have not survived the passage of time. One, however, that has, dates from 1830. It shows part of Heathfield, including the road from Warbleton to Heathfield. Two years later he and the 17-year-old Joseph surveyed Josiah Bonwick’s Foxhunt Green and Burgh Farms in Waldron but the final map was drawn by William Bray. In the years around 1840, he received a number of public commissions (which are discussed later) and in 1840 itself he surveyed and mapped Thomas Day Esquire’s lands in the marshes north of Pevensey, then known as Horsey, today called Horse Eye. His last surviving private map was of Viscount Gage’s Place Farm in West Firle, drawn in 1853. Like all his maps it has an elaborate, decorative cartouche.

In 1839, as will be seen, he received a basic 10d. per acre for mapping Chiddingly parish. If this was fairly representative of the sort of fees he earned, then surveying rewarded him for the many hours he must have spent in teaching himself its skills. But in 1839 is leaping ahead of his story. In the 1830s, as both Vestry Clerk and the paid Overseer, he still had much to do with the Poor Law to keep him occupied.