Career
Born in Ireland, he immigrated to the United States at an early age and settled in Philadelphia. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and in banking and shipping, and was one of the founders of and served with the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry during the American Revolutionary War. In 1780 he subscribed a large sum of money to help the American forces and aided the Continental Congress with money and cartulary-register
He died in Philadelphia.
Interment was in a vault in Saint Paul"s Cemetery.
