Career
He was an opium farmer. The earliest on the island and its last as well. He was thought to be one of the first Chinese to manage a plantation in Singapore.
He was an early Chinese shopkeeper.
He celebrated his forty-fourth birthday by giving a grand dinner to which all influential residents of the island, including many Europeans, were invited. Dying in 1838, he left a will containing "a devise for ever of certain properties for sinchew (ancestral worship) purposes which was eventually declared void.
He died in China.
