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- Collection: Members
McDowell, William
Description:
William McDowell was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1782, but inactive until marked off The Company roles in 1790. It is possible that he was the same William McDowell who served as a lieutenant in the 1st and 2nd…
Member number:
108*
Date elected:
1/3/1782
Kinsley, Frazer
Description:
Frazer (Frazier, Frasier) Kinsley was a master builder appointed by the Committee of Safety in 1776, along with Thomas Nevell and others to collect lead clock and sash weights to be used for ammunition. An "encourager" to the Philadelphia edition of…
Member number:
109*
Date elected:
1/4/1782
Evans, Evan
Description:
Evan Evans was a master builder who was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1782 and about which virtually nothing is known. He did not appear on the printed list of members in 1786 and was removed from the roll of members in 1787. Written by Roger…
Member number:
100
Date elected:
1/1/1782
Linnard, William
Description:
William Linnard was a master builder who served during the Revolution as a Captain of the Pennsylvania Artillery Company Militia. In 1782 he was elected to The Carpenters' Company and served as Warden in 1787 and Vice-President from 1806 until…
Member number:
114*
Birth date:
1/1/1749
Date elected:
1/5/1782
Corkrin, James
Description:
James Corkrin was a master builder and lumber merchant who became a member of The Carpenters' Company in 1783 and served as Warden in 1784.Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia.
Member number:
106*
Date elected:
1/6/1782
Thornhill, Jr., Joseph
Description:
The master builder Joseph Thornhill was the son of John and Jane (Cook) Thornhill. During the Revolution he served as a Sergeant in the 1st Company of Artillery of Philadelphia under master-builder Captain Benjamin Loxley. On December 18, 1783, he…
Member number:
108*
Date elected:
1/1/1783
Rakestraw, Jr., Joseph
Description:
Joseph, Jr., the third Philadelphia master builder of this name, styled himself "junior" to avoid confusion with his uncle (Joseph Rakestraw, d.1794). He is listed as an "encourager" to the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect…
Member number:
107*
Birth date:
1/1/1750
Date elected:
1/1/1784
King, John
Description:
The master builder John King became a paying student of Thomas Nevell in 1766. Nevell recorded in his account book on 12 March 1766, that King paid him two pounds "to Instructions in the Art of Drawing Sundry Propositions in Architecture." King next…
Member number:
109*
Date elected:
1/2/1784
Moore, William
Description:
William Moore, an unfortunately common name in late eighteenth-century Philadelphia, was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1784 and by 1790 marked in The Company records as excluded, probably for failure to pay dues. In 1770 he witnessed the will…
Member number:
111*
Date elected:
1/3/1784
Boyd, Andrew
Description:
Andrew Boyd was a master builder who signed the articles of The Carpenters' Company in 1785. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
110*
Date elected:
1/1/1785
Bartling, Conrad
Description:
Conrad Bartling was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1785. He became a Warden of The Company in 1791. Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
112*
Date elected:
1/2/1785
Donahue, John
Description:
John Donahue was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1785 and excluded in 1790. He was an "encourager" to Abraham Swan, The British Architect (Philadelphia, R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775). Biography from Philadelphia Architects and…
Member number:
113*
Date elected:
1/3/1785
Rugan, John
Description:
John Rugan was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1785. His other memberships include the Library Company and the Columbia Fire Company. Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of…
Member number:
119*
Date elected:
1/4/1785
Rodes, Mark
Description:
Mark Rodes was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1785. He may be the Mark Rodes who was a seargent in John Jordan's company of the Artillery Artificers, 1778-1780.Biography from the Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project…
Member number:
120*
Date elected:
1/5/1785
Harrison, John
Description:
The master builder John Harrison (III), whose relationship to the other Harrisons is unclear, was living in Mulberry Ward at the time of the 1774 tax. Two years later (January 26, 1776), John Thornhill reported "that John Harrison is Desirous of…
Member number:
121*
Date elected:
1/6/1785
Cooper, John
Description:
John Cooper was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1785. John Cooper was proposed for the Carpenters’ Company by John King. It is certain that a carpenter named John Cooper lived at 133 Pine street from 1791 until his death in the…
Member number:
122*
Date elected:
1/7/1785
Evans, Robert
Description:
Robert Evans was a Master Builder who first joined the Journeymen Carpenters' Company, then became a member of the Friendship Carpenters Company in 1769; and, when the Friendship Company merged with The Carpenters' Company in 1786, he became an…
Member number:
123*
Birth date:
1/1/1738
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Wetherill, Joseph
Description:
The master builder, lumber merchant, and Philadelphia Inspector of Lumber, Joseph Wetherill, was the son of Christopher and Mary (Stockton) Wetherill. In 1764 he married Anna Canby of Solebury Township, Bucks County, PA, in the Philadelphia Monthly…
Member number:
124*
Birth date:
7/10/1740
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Roberts, Hugh
Description:
Master builder Hugh Roberts--occasionally "Jr." to avoid confusion with the Hugh Roberts, 1703-1786, who owned the large house built at Point no Point in 1767 and belonged to the American Philosophical Society -- became a member of the Friendship…
Member number:
125*
Date elected:
1/16/1786
Garrigues, William
Description:
William Garrigues was a prosperous master builder. A founder of the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1769, he negotiated the ill-fated efforts to unite the two companies of master carpenters on the eve of the Revolution. He was an "encourager" of…
Member number:
126*
Birth date:
7/23/1746
Date elected:
1/16/1786
Jones, Isaac
Description:
Isaac Jones was the brother of Abraham Jones, and a master builder elected to the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1769. He was an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the…
Member number:
127*
Birth date:
1/1/1744
Date elected:
1/16/1786
Pancoast, Samuel S.
Description:
Samuel Pancoast was a master builder who became a member of the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1769 and signed the Articles of The Carpenters' Company in 1786 when the two organizations joined. He served on several Company committees and is…
Member number:
128*
Birth date:
12/29/17??
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Keen, Matthias Valentine
Description:
Matthias Valentine Keen was a master builder who became a member of the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1769 and a member of The Carpenters' Company when those two organizations joined in 1786. Nothing is known of Keen's architectural work, but he…
Member number:
129*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Stevenson, Sr., William
Description:
The master builder William Stevenson, Sr., was elected to the Friendship Carpenters' Company on the eve of the Revolution. He joined The Carpenters' Company when the two organizations of master carpenters united in 1786. In 1789 he inventoried the…
Member number:
130*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Morrell, Robert
Description:
Robert Morrell was a master builder who joined the Friendship Carpenters' Company c.1773; and when that company merged with The Carpenters' Company in 1786, he signed the articles. In 1805, a carpenter named Robert Morrell is listed as residing at…
Member number:
131*
Birth date:
1/1/1752
Date elected:
1/16/1786
Mosley, Richard
Description:
Richard Mosley was a master builder who served his apprenticeship with Benjamin Worrell, gaining his freedom in 1774. Shortly thereafter he joined the Friendship Carpenters' Company; and when that company joined with The Carpenters' Company in 1786,…
Member number:
132*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Reinhard, John
Description:
John Reinhard was a master builder who became a member of the Friendship Carpenters' Company on the eve of the Revolution and of The Carpenters' Company after the two organizations of master carpenters united in 1786. He was an "encourager" of the…
Member number:
133*
Date elected:
1/16/1786
Pastorius, Samuel
Description:
Samuel Pastorius was a master builder who joined the Friendship Carpenters' Company c.1775 and The Carpenters' Company in 1786 when the two joined. He was an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan, The British Architect (1775), the…
Member number:
134*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Barker, John
Description:
John Barker was a master builder who first became a member of the Friendship Carpenters' Company, signing the articles in 1775. When that Company merged with The Carpenters' Company in 1786, he transferred his membership. Biography from Philadelphia…
Member number:
135*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Matlack, Josiah
Description:
Josiah Matlack was a Dock Ward master builder who became a member of the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1769 and in 1786 signed the articles of The Carpenters' Company when the two companies of master carpenters merged. He was an "encourager" of…
Member number:
136*
Birth date:
1/1/1749
Date elected:
1/16/1786
Piles, John
Description:
John Piles was a master builder elected to the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1773; he became a member of The Carpenters' Company in 1786 when the two companies joined. A resident of Dock Ward by the time of the 1774 tax (and for the rest of his…
Member number:
137*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Clark, Joseph
Description:
Joseph Clark was a master builder and a founder of the Friendship Carpenters Company in 1769. When the Friendship Company and The Carpenters' Company merged in 1786, he became a member of The Company. Architectural drawings held by the Maryland…
Member number:
138*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Zane, William
Description:
The master carpenter and ironmonger William Zane became a member of the Friendship Carpenters' Company c.1775 and a member of The Carpenters' Company when the two groups of master carpenters united in 1786. In the years following the Revolution, Zane…
Member number:
139*
Date elected:
1/16/1786
Savery, Thomas
Description:
Thomas Savery, son of the cabinetmaker William Savery, Sr., entered Thomas Nevell's school for persons "anxious to improve themselves in the art of architecture" in December of 1771. Just as Nevell had been groomed for The Carpenters' Company by…
Member number:
140*
Birth date:
1/1/1751
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Smith, Nathan Allen
Description:
The master builder Nathan Allen Smith may have been from Burlington, New Jersey, but he certainly signed the articles of the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1775 and the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1786 when the two organizations of…
Member number:
142*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Tolbert, Samuel
Description:
The master builder Samuel Tolbert (not Talbert) became a member of the Friendship Carpenters' Company and then signed the articles of The Carpenters' Company when those two organizations of master craftsmen united in 1786. During the Revolution,…
Member number:
143*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Jones, Samuel
Description:
Samuel Jones was a master builder elected to the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1771. He was an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the first book on architecture…
Member number:
144*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Hall, John
Description:
John Hall was a master builder, a founder of the Friendship Carpenters Company (1769) and an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the first book on architecture pubished in…
Member number:
145*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Dillworth, Jonathan
Description:
Jonathan Dilworth was a master builder and one of the original committeemen who founded the Friendship Carpenters Company in 1769. When the Friendship Company and the Carpenters' Company merged in 1786, Dilworth joined The Company, although he was…
Member number:
146*
Date elected:
1/16/1786
Hallowell, Israel
Description:
Israel Hallowell was a master builder, a founder of the Friendship Carpenters Company, and an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the first book on architecture published in…
Member number:
147*
Birth date:
1/1/1743
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Griffiths, William
Description:
William Griffiths was a master builder who had been apprenticed in 1767 to William Roberts and assigned to the carpenter Thomas Hale, 1771-1772. He was proposed for membership in The Carpenters Company in 1783 and elected in 1785. By 1790 he was…
Member number:
148*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Howell, Jr., Joseph
Description:
Joseph Howell, Jr. was a master builder who joined the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1772 and served as Clerk in 1775. According to Heitman, during the Revolution he was a Captain of the Pennsylvania Musket Battalion. Taken prisoner at Long…
Member number:
149*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Ferguson, Ebenezer
Description:
Ebenezer Ferguson (or Furguson) was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1786, but he left Philadelphia shortly thereafter. Ebenezer was a veteran of the American Revolution and served in the Pennsylvania militia.Biography from…
Member number:
150*
Birth date:
1/1/1754
Date elected:
1/1/1786
McClister, Francis
Description:
Francis McClester was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1785, but was never an active member. He was proposed by Robert Allison. In 1779 following the recapture of Philadelphia from the British, McClester was provided materials…
Member number:
151*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Hall, Alexander
Description:
Alexander Hale was a master builder and an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the first book of architecture published in America. Elected to The Carpenters' Company in…
Member number:
152*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Evans, Jr., Jonathan
Description:
Jonathan Evans, Jr., was a Master Builder who joined the Friendship Carpenters Company in 1769 and became a member of The Carpenters' Company in 1787. He was excluded from The Company, probably for failure to pay dues, in 1792. His copy of the secret…
Member number:
154*
Birth date:
1/1/1759
Date elected:
1/1/1787
Craig, James
Description:
James Craig was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1787. He was also an "encourager" of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (Philadelphia: R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775). Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a…
Member number:
153*
Date elected:
1/1/1787
Worrell, Joseph
Description:
The master builder Joseph Worrell was the son of Ezekiel and Ann (King) Worrell. Following her husband's death, Ann Worrell petitioned The Carpenters' Company for help in "placing one of her sons Apprentice to a House Carpenter." Company records…
Member number:
155
Date elected:
1/21/1788
Wilson, John
Description:
The master builder John Wilson was elected to The Carpenters' Company on July 21, 1788. Wilson, however, appears to have been most active as a lumber merchant in partnership with Ralph Wilson at 349 No. Front Street, according to the Philadelphia…
Member number:
156*
Date elected:
1/1/1788
Harrison, John
Member number:
157*
Date elected:
1/1/1788