Arrived in Bergen in 1706 in the service of his brother Hans. Last Hanseatic trade manager in stall no. 4 at Leppen, 1711. Married Anna Margrete Brandt in 1715. Departed for Greenland as a cooper in 1724 at 40 rix-dollars per annum — a remuneration that one may charitably describe as modest. Appointed under-gauger in Trondheim in 1733, then senior gauger in 1736. Large family; straitened finances. His sons Peter Daniel and Michael received assistance with their education.