"He can speak Dutch, but appears to be this country born; he lived several years about two miles eastward from Germantown, with Thomas Roberts, junior." (1)
(1) “Extracts from American Newspapers, Relating to New Jersey [1751-1755],†William Nelson, ed., Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 19 (Paterson, New Jersey: The Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1897), 332-333, citing The New York Gazette or the Weekly Post Boy, 22 January 1754.