The author believes he did not serve as a redemptioner, but his passage was paid by Rev. Dr. Kunze. (1)
(1) Morton L. Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania: Embracing a Concise History of the County and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families, Vol. II (Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1909), 1109.