Philadelphia merchant and public official.

Member of the American Philosophical Society (1768). Warden of the port of Philadelphia.

First letter in correspondence: October 7, 1788; Francis White, The Philadelphia Directory (Philadelphia, 1785), p. 11; Early Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society . . . from 1744 to 1838 (Philadelphia, 1884), pp. 5, 12; Pa. Gaz., November 3, 1784.