Philadelphia iron manufacturer.

Member of the American Philosophical Society (1795).

Married (1) Elizabeth Ann Flower (1765). Married (2) Elizabeth Jones (1779). Thirteen children.

First letter in correspondence: May 1, 1788; Elaine Forman Crane, ed., The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker (3 vols., Boston, 1991), iii, 2230; Early Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society . . . from 1744 to 1838 (Philadelphia, 1884), p. 228.