1. He was largely engaged in business in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary period, and like most of his brothers, he held several important positions of trust and honor during that time.
His activities during the struggle for independence had been of too militant a character to suit a large number of the Quaker element, and he united with Samuel Wetherill, Owen Biddle, Moses Bartram, and other “Fighting Quakers,” in organizing the society known as the “Free Quakers,” in which he was a zealous and prominent member until the close of his life.
His honorable and useful career was ended by death, December 1797. His will, dated December 8, 1797, was proven December 21, 1797. [48]