Philadelphia printer.

Published the American Daily Advertiser in partnership with David C. Claypoole.

Married Elizabeth Bordley Polk (c. 1790).

First letter in correspondence: August 1, 1786; Lillian B. Miller, ed., The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family (5 vols., New Haven, 1983-2000), i, xlvii, ii, 229n.