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  • Collection: Members

Description: Jacob Nice was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. Nice lived at 40 Coate's Alley until 1807. He died in 1818.Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Thomas Stokes.
Member number: 191*
Date elected: 1/1/1796

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Description: The master builder John Nicholas was the son of Samuel (d. 1709) and Margaret (Moore) Nicholas (d. 1743) of Philadelphia. He was one of the earliest members and a possible founder of The Carpenters' Company, although no Company records prior to the…
Member number: 7*
Birth date: 1/1/1700

Member number: 476*
Date elected: 8/1/1888

Member number: 452
Date elected: 11/4/1880

Member number: 240*
Date elected: 1/1/1809

Member number: 333
Date elected: 1/1/1836

Description: Robert O'Neil was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1820. He first appeared in the 1820 directory as a house carpenter living at 82 Cedar street. Eventually in 1840, he was additionally listed as living on Penn…
Member number: 277*
Date elected: 1/1/1820

Description: The house carpenter and surveyor John M. Ogden (not to be confused with John Ogden, carpenter, who also appears in Philadelphia directories in the early nineteenth century) first appears in Philadelphia city directories as a carpenter living at 168…
Member number: 270
Birth date: 1/19/1791
Date elected: 7/24/1816

Description: Joseph Ogilby was a leading master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1773. He became a Warden of The Company in 1775 but was replaced the next year when it was reported that he had left the city. Ogilby was an "encourager" to the…
Member number: 97*
Birth date: 1/1/1737
Date elected: 1/1/1773

Description: William Palmer was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1800. One William Palmer was also noted by Scharf & Westcott as an original member of the King George III Fire Company, founded in 1761; however, it is not known if this is…
Member number: 213*
Date elected: 1/1/1800

Description: William Palmer was a carpenter elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1839. In 1845, his business address was Shippen street above 8th street and his house was 161 Queen street. He died in 1847 and his widow was placed on widows'…
Member number: 345
Date elected: 1/1/1839

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Description: Joshua Pancoast was a master builder who briefly appears on the rolls of The Carpenters' Company in 1770, after his death at the age of 32 the previous year. The earliest record of him in Philadelphia was the announcement of his intention to marry…
Member number: 63*
Birth date: 4/2//1737
Date elected: 1/7/1763

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

Description: John Parham was elected to membership in the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1812. He is most notable for the letter to Nelson Barksdale, Proctor of the University of Virginia, preserved in the Thomas Jefferson Papers, University of Virginia:…
Member number: 257*
Date elected: 1/1/1812

Description: Benjamin Paschall was a carpenter who joined The Carpenters' Company in 1792 and died in 1801. He should not be confused with an earlier Benjamin Paschall. Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of…
Member number: 167*
Date elected: 1/1/1792

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

Description: Thomas Patterson was a carpenter elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1839. The 1845 City Directory listed Patterson as a Carpenter at Marshall street above Brown street and his house at 7th street above Brown street. In the 1854…
Member number: 344
Date elected: 1/1/1839

Description: David Paul was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number: 178*
Date elected: 1/1/1794

Description: Samuel Paul was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He was elected after being proposed by Robert Jordan. Paul likely lived outside of the city as he is not listed in any directories. Multiple individuals named Samuel Paul…
Member number: 186*
Date elected: 1/1/1794

Description: William Paxson was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1816. He resided at 37 North 3rd street. He was elected Warden in 1821 but died during his term in 1822.Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Buildings,…
Member number: 271*
Date elected: 1/1/1816

Member number: 479
Date elected: 11/1/1888

Description: Master builder James Pearson was an early member of The Carpenters' Company, although the actual date of his election is unknown because of the loss of all Company records prior to 1763. In those earliest surviving records, Pearson is mentioned as a…
Member number: 38*
Birth date: 1/1/1735

Description: Isaac Perkins was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1798 after he was proposed by Conrad Bartling. He died in 1808.Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Buildings, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Thomas…
Member number: 202*
Date elected: 1/1/1798

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Description: Evan Peters was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to the date of the earliest surviving records of the 1760s. He first appears in the Company records early in 1770, the same year he made a pump for The Company's lot. (Making…
Member number: 65*
Date elected: 1/9/1763

Member number: 378
Date elected: 4/25/1854

Description: Thomas Pickands was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1804. Pickands likely migrated to the United States from Northern Ireland with his close friend, James Dinsmore, the well-known carpenter responsible for most of the woodwork…
Member number: 229*
Date elected: 1/1/1804

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

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Description: George Plim (Plym) was an early member of The Carpenters' Company who first appears in the extant records on April 19, 1770, where it is recorded that "haveing some ago desired to have his name discontinued as a Member, now Attended the Compy mett,…
Member number: 42*
Birth date: 1/1/1733

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Description: James was a master buider who came to Philadelphia in the service of William Wade, yeoman of the parish of Hankton, Sussex, who died on board onWelcomebound for Pennsylvania in 1682. Under the terms of Wade's will, Porteus (the name is variously…
Member number: 2*
Birth date: 1/1/1670

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Description: James Potter was a master builder from the Southwark section of the city elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to the date of extant Company records of the 1760s; he is first recorded as present at a meeting in 1769. He was an "encourager" to the…
Member number: 45*

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Description: The master builder Samuel Powel has commonly been mistaken for the wealthy and socially prominent Mayor of Philadelphia, Samuel Powel (1738-1793), grandson of Samuel Powell. The date of this Powel's election to The Carpenters' Company is unknown; he…
Member number: 68*

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Description: Samuel Powell came to Philadelphia as a child in 1685 and was probably apprenticed to his uncle John Parsons, carpenter from Somersetshire. Powell's marriage in 1700/1 to the prosperous orphan Abigail Wilcox was witnessed by William Penn, Edward…
Member number: 3*
Birth date: 1/11673

Description: The master builder William Powell, son of Thomas Powell (yeoman), became an apprentice to Joseph Watkins, carpenter, in 1745 for seven years. What relationship he may have been to the William Powell who was admitted a free carpenter of Philadelphia…
Member number: 172*
Birth date: 1/1/1731
Date elected: 1/1/1793

Description: Master builder Ellis Price was elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to the date of the earliest surviving records from the 1760s. In 1756 he married Sarah Osborne at Christ Church and was disowned by the Friends the following year. At the time of…
Member number: 33*
Birth date: 1/1/1719

Description: Jacob S. Price was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1844. Price was elected as a Company Warden in 1878 and served a two year term. He also served on the Managing Committee from 1881-83. In the…
Member number: 353
Date elected: 1/1/1844

Description: Master builder John Price was elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to the earliest surviving records. He may be the same John Price granted letters of administration for the estate of Reese Price of Bristol Township, Philadelphia County, yeoman…
Member number: 19*
Birth date: 1/11680

Member number: 64*
Date elected: 1/8/1763

Description: Thomas Procter was an Irish-born master builder who, wishing to improve his understanding of the "art of architecture," studied with Thomas Nevell in 1771. The following year he was elected to membership in The Carpenters' Company, the same year…
Member number: 91*
Birth date: 1/1/1739
Date elected: 1/2/1772

Member number: 489*
Date elected: 5/10/1893

Description: Samuel Rain was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1847. He served many leadership capacities in the Company, first as a Warden in 1856-1858, on the Managing Committee from 1859-61, in 1863, 1865, 1876-78, 1884 and…
Member number: 355
Date elected: 1/1/1847

Description: Joseph Rakestraw was a master builder listed as an early member of The Carpenters' Company in 1786, but no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to confirm that claim. He married Elizabeth Fox, the sister of Joseph Fox and granddaughter of…
Member number: 16*
Birth date: 1/11700

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Description: oseph was one of the most prominent master builders of the years immediately before and after the Revolution. The son of Joseph and Elizabeth Fox Rakestraw, he had become important in Carpenters' Company affairs by the 1760s, although his date of…
Member number: 59*
Birth date: 1/1/1732
Date elected: 1/2/1763

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

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Description: Master builder William Rakestraw is probably the son of William (d.1736)) and grandson of William (d. 1718), making it difficult to sort early references. As a lad he was apprenticed to the leading master builder James Portues who bequeathed him 40…
Member number: 61*
Birth date: 1/1/1718
Date elected: 1/5/1763

Description: Alexander Ramsey was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1813. He resided at 175 Cherry Street and died in 1822. He left a family of little means, and the Carpenters' Company aided them financially throughout the…
Member number: 261*
Date elected: 1/1/1813

Description: According to a 1971 letter fromJohn Harbesonto Robert Ennis: Joseph Randall, Master Carpenter, was the builder of the Walnut Street Theater from the plans of the architectJohn Haviland. A Quaker, he was elected a member of the Carpenters' Company of…
Member number: 294
Date elected: 1/1/1827

Description: William Randolph was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1814. In the 1820 City Directory he is listed as a lumber merchant residing at 223 N. Water street. He served as the Company's Secretary in from 1824-26 and…
Member number: 265*
Date elected: 1/1/1814

Member number: 469*
Date elected: 8/4/1886

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Description: The master builder Jacob Reary was elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to the date of earliest surviving records of the 1760s. At The Company meeting of April 15, 1771, Thomas Nevell reported that Reary "Stood in Need of Some Assistance After…
Member number: 72*

Member number: 473*
Date elected: 1/16/1888
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