Career
He left Ireland in 1803 because of the political situation. Arriving in New York, he began a book-selling and publishing concern. He got out a New Testament printed for him in Brooklyn in 1805, and an edition of Pastorini"s History of the Church in 1807.
He moved to Baltimore in 1809 and from there to Philadelphia in 1817.
In the early 1830s, he sold his business in Philadelphia and retired to Ohio.