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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Worrell, Joseph]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 strongly suggest that that son was Joseph Worrell and that he was taken as an apprentice by James Pearson. On 21 January 1788, "James Pearson proposed Joseph Worrel (sic.) Son of ye Late Ezekial Worral (sic.)" as a member of The Company. As this birthright builder matured, he took an ever greater role in Company affairs; he was elected Company Secretary 1801-1803, Vice President 1818-1820, and President 1821-1823, 1827-1829. Nothing is known of Worrell's building practice except that he briefly appears to have been in partnership with the carpenter Isaac Forsyth (7 Little George Street) for which bills marked Worrell &amp; Forsyth survive for the period 1809-1811. When The Carpenters' Company established an architecture school in 1833, Worrell was appointed chairman of the school committee. Worrell was on the Select Council of the City of Philadelphia and was appointed as one of the committee members to oversee the design and construction of Girard College by Thomas Ustick Walter. A portrait (c.1815) of Worrell attributed to Jacob Eichholtz survives in the possession of the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/23275">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>.&nbsp;Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wilson, John]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 city directories. He was elected Warden of The Company in 1793, but he died late that year. For several years The Company assisted Wilson's three minor children. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/104608">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>.&nbsp;Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Harrison, John]]></dcterms:title>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boyer, James]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[James Boyer was a master builder and probably the son of William Boyer. He was elected to membership in The Carpenters' Company on January 18, 1790 after being proposed by William Garrigues. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/24070">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Thomas Stokes.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Snowden, George]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The master builder George Snowden was proposed for membership in The Carpenters' Company on 19 January 19 1789 by Joseph Ogilby and elected on 20 July 1789, although he did not sign the articles of The Company until 1791, having "paid...admission in Carpenters work" on Carpenters' Hall after the Library Company moved to their own nearby building. His copy of The Carpenters' Company price book was returned in 1803, suggesting he may have left town. He was excluded from The Company in 1815 from the non-payment of dues. <br /><br /><br />Biography from, <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/102812">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>.&nbsp;Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Knight, Daniel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Daniel Knight was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1789 (signed Articles in 1791) who paid his admission in carpenters work, specifically the trim and balusters of the second floor window at Carpenters' Hall. He served as Warden of The Company (1797-1799) and as a member of the Managing Committee (1800-1807, 1813, 1815-1817, 1819-1821). He may also have been a founder of the Columbia Fire Company (1796). <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/26865">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Krider, William]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[William Krider was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1789 and signed the Articles in 1791. Said to have worked on Library Hall and paid for his Carpenters' Company admission fees by helping to finish Carpenters' Hall after the Library Company moved. Excluded from The Company in 1815, Krider may have died the same year. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/22297">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Steel, Alexander]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Southwark district master builder Alexander Steel was elected to The Carpenter's Company in 1791 and is recorded as having served on the Governing Committee in 1801. He was a subscriber to Owen Biddle, The Young Carpenter's Assistant (Philadelphia, 1805), one of the earliest American books of architecture. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/118118">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Colladay, Jacob]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Jacob Colladay was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. He was also a member of the Columbia Fire Company, founded in 1796 for residents of the Eighth and Cherry Streets area of Philadelphia. <br /><br />biography from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/23018">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Morris, Joseph]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Joseph Morris was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792, serving as Warden (1794-97) and Vice-President (1821-23). He was a director of the Philadelphia Contributionship (1809-1817) and first President of the Columbia Fire Company founded in 1796.<br /><br /> <br />Biography from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/26269">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>.&nbsp;Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Colladay, Abraham]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Abraham Colladay was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. Colladay's only known commission is the steeple added to the Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Lancaster, PA, in 1794. On May 22, 1795, the Columbianum or American Academy of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, &amp;c opened an exhibition which included several architectural drawings by Robert Smith, William Williams, and John Sproul. Under the heading of Abraham Collady (sic.) "Architect, Mulberry Street, No. 138" appears "the draft of the wood-work of a Steeple built at Lancaster, and sundry other drawings of buildings." Colladay, whose Philadelphia directory listings run from the 1790s through 1811, always listed himself as a house carpenter at 138 Mulberry Street. It is nonetheless interesting that his drawings should have been included in the earliest known American exhibition of architectural drawings. <br /><br /><br /><br />Biography from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/23020">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>&nbsp;website, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Kellinger, Philip]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Philip Kellinger was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. He died the following year. <br /><br />Biography from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/96814">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Jordan, Robert]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Robert Jordan was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. Jordan's "Receipt Book, 1790-1833" survives in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and contains both a record of his work, 1790-1797, and the settlement of his estate. <br /><br /><em><br /><br />Biography from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/96333">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.&nbsp;</em>]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Thornton, Benjamin]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The master builder Benjamin Thornton declined membership in The Carpenters' Company in 1782 but was elected in 1792. He appears in the Philadelphia city directories as a house carpenter at 20 Church Alley. According to Carpenters' Company records Thornton died in 1797, and in 1798 his widow is listed in the city directory at the Church Alley address. <br /><br />Written by Roger W. Moss, from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/118270">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>&nbsp;website.&nbsp;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Paschall, Benjamin]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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. <br /><br /><br />Biography from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/26657">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a> website. Written by Roger W. Moss.&nbsp;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Crozier, Matthew]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Matthew Crozier was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. In Ryan K. Smith’s Robert Morris's Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder, Crozier is included as a master carpenter for Morris’s mansion, known as Morris’s Folly. Crozier replaced John Sproul, another member of the Carpenters' Company, in November of 1795 and eventually “Crozier drifted away” from the doomed project.<br /><br /><em>Biography from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/22469">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>&nbsp;website, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Sandra L. Tatman and Thomas Stokes.</em>]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wayne, Samuel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The master builder Samuel Wayne--13 Key's Alley--was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1793. Samuel married Elizabeth Curtain at Christ Church in 1783.<br /><br />biography from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/107454">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss and Thomas Stokes.&nbsp;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Powell, William]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 in 1717 is unknown. This Powell, however, was elected to The Carpenters' Company of the City and Country of Philadelphia in 1793, elected Secretary in 1797, and Treasurer of the Columbia Fire Company, founded in 1796 by citizens of the Eighth and Cherry Streets area of the city.<br /><br />Biography from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm?ArchitectId=A1102">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss and Thomas Stokes.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Garrigues, Edward]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Edward Garrigues was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1793. He was proposed for membership by Samuel Pancoast. Edward served on the Board of Health during the yellow fever outbreaks in the 1790s.<br /><br />Biography from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm?ArchitectId=A0487">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss and Thomas Stokes.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Johnson, Samuel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Samuel Johnson, a master builder who served his apprenticeship under John Harrison, was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1793 and excluded in 1805. <br /><br />Biography from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/96334">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>.<br />Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Simes, Samuel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sameul Sims was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He died the next year. Samuel Simes, or Sims, was a member of the company for around a year. There are multiple listings in the Philadelphia Directory between 1785 and 1794. In 1785, there lived a Samuel Sime on Front street between Lombard and South streets who worked as a cabinet maker. In 1791, Samuels Sims lived at 237 South Front street and was listed as a joiner. Samuel lived at the same place in 1793 but was listed as a house carpenter. In 1794, his address was 157 Spruce street and he was again labeled as a house carpenter. According to the Managing Committee Minutes of 1793, John Wilson (elected in 1788) proposed Samuel Simes and he was elected. This contradicts his election date of 1794 and sets it at the previous year. In 1798, three years after Samuel’s death, the Company directed that his children “be placed at school-same for Mosley’s children; widow of George Mosley will board them at three dollars a week.” It is unknown how Samuel Sims and Joseph Sims (elected in 1810) are related.<br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/103814">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Thomas Stokes and Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mulock, Edward]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Edward Mulock was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1795. The following year he was paid for 218-1/2 days work at Congress Hall. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/26285">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Clarke, Aaron]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Aaron Clarke was elected to membership in the Carpenters Company of Philadelphia in 1794. <br /><br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/455573">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Sandra L. Tatman.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Paul, David]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[David Paul was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/100707">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lancaster, Thomas]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thomas Lancaster was a master house carpenter elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He was also an original member of the Humane Fire Company founded the same year. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21435">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Davis, Isaac]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Isaac Davis was a house carpenter elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. Nothing is known of Davis's professional activity; however, in 1798 he robbed the Bank of Pennsylvania, then housed in Carpenters' Hall, of $160,000 in bank notes and gold. Davis confessed to the theft when he was questioned about the source of substantial deposits he had made in the same bank following the robbery. Davis disappeared before he could be brought to trial, and The Company expelled him from membership in 1799. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/22455">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>.&nbsp;Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Zigler, Jacob]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The master builder Jacob Zigler (Ziegler) served in the First Pennsylvania Battalion as an Ensign and then Lieutenant from 1775 to 1777. He was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794 and died in 1822. At the time of his election to The Company, Zigler lived at 33 St. John's Street in the Northern Liberties; in 1790 he had been a founder of the Federal Fire Company for that district. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/113683">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Leech, Daniel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Daniel Leech was a master house carpenter elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. <br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/25625">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rhoads, Charles]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Charles Rhoads was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He died in 1810. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/100342">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Stewart, James]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Dock Ward master builder James Stewart was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He was a subscriber to Owen Biddle, The Young Carpenters' Assistant (Philadelphia, 1805), one of the earliest American architecture books. <br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/113584">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sproul, John]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[John Sproul (Sprowl) was a master builder proposed for membership in The Carpenters' Company in 1788, although he was not elected until 1794. Company records suggest he died that same year, although Philadelphia directories list him through 1797. Sproul may be the John Sprowles who was a 1st Lt. of Flower's Regiment of Artillery Artificers from 1777 through 1780. On May 22, 1795, the Columbianum or American Academy of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, &amp;c opened an exhibition which included several architectural drawings by Robert Smith, William Williams, and Abraham Colladay. Under the heading of "John Sproul, Architect, No. 23, N. Ninth street" appeared "Drawings of public buildings, designed for a dancing assembly and other purposes." Sproul always listed himself as a house carpenter at the Ninth Street address. It is nonetheless interesting that his drawings should have been included in the earliest known American exhibition of architectural drawings. Ryan K. Smith includes John Sproul as the head carpenter for Morris’s Folly. Smith notes that Sproul had been sick for the building season of 1793 but returned in 1794 and had “achieved election to the city Carpenters’ Company".<br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/25636#">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Thomas Stokes and Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Paul, Samuel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[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 lived near Philadelphia. It is unclear if any of them were the Carpenters’ Company’s Samuel Paul.<br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/96326">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss and Thomas Stokes.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Comly, Jacob]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Jacob Comly was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1795. <br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/23010">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Sandra L. Tatman.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Summers, George]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Born in Philadelphia, the master builder George Summers was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1795. He married Lydia Wright (b. 26 March 1777) in 1794.<br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/115990">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>.&nbsp;Written by Roger W. Moss, and Sandra L. Tatman.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hutchinson, John]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[John Hutchinson was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1795. He built present day 236 Seventh Street the same year. <br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/25238">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Evans, Jacob]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Jacob Evans was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1795. He was proposed for membership by Charles Rhoads. He was expelled in 1803 for failing to pay his fines and quarterages. In the 1795 city directory, there are two carpenters named Jacob Evans, one listed at 13 North 5th st. and the other between 50 and 133 Pine st.<br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/93615">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Thomas Stokes and Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nice, Jacob]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Jacob Nice was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. Nice lived at 40 Coate's Alley until 1807. He died in 1818.<br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/26249">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Thomas Stokes.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Adolph, John]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[John Adolph was a master builder who was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. <br /><br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/24083">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Smith, Jr., John D.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The master builder John Smith, Jr. should not be confused with John Smith, son of Robert Smith. John Smith, Jr. was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796 and died in 1820. He was a subscriber to Owen Biddle, The Young Carpenter's Assistant (Philadelphia, 1805), one of the earliest books of architecture written and published in America.<br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/118023">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[McLeod, Malcom]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Malcom McLeod was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. An statement on his death in a newspaper says McLeod was a native of Scotland and died at the age of 80. This puts his birth year around 1761. He lived the majority of his adult life at 154 Race street. He was first listed in the city directory for that address in 1800.<br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/102179">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Thomas Stokes.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chamberlin, Richard]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Richard Chamberlain was a master builder elected a member of The Carpenters' Company in 1796. He served as a Warden of the company from 1810-1812. Richard lived on Coates Alley for most of his professional career. In 1791, he was listed at 15 Coates Alley. By 1805, he was listed at 35 Coates Alley. Coates Alley ran East and West from Front to Second street between Vine and Sassafras. In 1818, his residence changed to 246 North Third street where he continued to live until his death in 1824.<br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/22837">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Thomas Stokes.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Carlile, Isaac]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Isaac Carlile was a master builder elected a member of The Carpenters' Company in 1796. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/23007">Philadelphia Architects and Builders</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>.&nbsp;Written by Roger W. Moss.<br />]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Thomas, Elisha]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Elisha Thomas was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796; that same year he appears in the Philadelphia city directory as a house carpenter living at 58 Vine Street. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/24159">Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>.&nbsp;Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hopkins, William]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[William Hopkins was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. He was proposed for membership by Silas Engles.<br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm?ArchitectId=A0677">Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Thomas Stokes and Roger Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Flickwir, David H.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[David Flickwir was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/26036">Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>.&nbsp;Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lybrand, Jacob]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Jacob Librand, also known as Lybrand, was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. He was also a member of the Columbia Fire Company, founded in 1796 for residents of the Eighth and Cherry Streets area. <br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/26873">Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>.&nbsp;Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Govett, William]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Son of master builder Joseph Govett, William Govett was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. He appears in the Philadelphia city directories as a carpenter from 1835 through 1840. Govett was clearly following his trade at the time of his death in 1852 inasmuch as his will charges his executors with "completing any Buildings which may be unfinished at the time of my decease." He should not be confused with William Govett, architect. <br /><br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/25410">Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</a>, from the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Cox, John T.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[John Cox was a master builder elected to membership in The Carpenters' Company in 1797. The existence of several men of this name (or Coxe) in late eighteenth-century Philadelphia makes positive identification impossible. The carpenter John Cox lived on South fifth street from 1797 until 1804. In 1804, he was listed as a carpenter living on Spruce above 7th. In 1806, he had moved to Ninth near Walnut and in 1807 he was listed at 212 Pine street where he remained until his death in 1813. The remains of John T. Cox and his wife Harriot were removed from their original interments at the the First Baptist Church’s old burial grounds to Mount Moriah Cemetery in 1860. Cox’s headstone notes that was 46 at the time of his death thus putting his date of birth around the year 1767.<br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/22479">Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</a>, a project of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Thomas Stokes and Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Perkins, Isaac]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Isaac Perkins was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1798 after he was proposed by Conrad Bartling. He died in 1808.<br /><br />Biography from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm?ArchitectId=FCD1C91F-6DDF-45B8-A4A52A9BEC849DBA">Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</a>, a project of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>. Written by Thomas Stokes.&nbsp;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Williamson, Jesse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The master builder Jesse Williamson, who appears in Philadelphia city directories in the 1790s with a residence at 333 South Second Street, was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1798 and died in 1852. In the 1790s he may have been in partnership with the house carpenter David Flickwir. <br /><br />Biography from <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21580">Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum of Philadelphia</a>.&nbsp;Written by Roger W. Moss.]]></dcterms:description>
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