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Author: Black, William.
Date: 1892

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Description: Three copper printing plates, all attached to wooden blocks. Used for printing.
Date: unknown
Item type: printing plates

Author: Yonge, Charles Duke
Date: 1872

Author: Colvin-Stabel
Date: 1903

Author: Edwards, Amelia B.
Date: 1889

Author: Bishop, Nathaniel H.
Date: 1872

Author: Burritt, Elihu
Date: 1854

Author: Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
Date: 1871

Author: Plon, Eugene
Date: 1874

Author: Ebers, Georg.
Date: 1892

Author: Ebers, Georg.
Date: 1892

Description: 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…
Member number: 170*
Date elected: 1/1/1792

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

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Description: Joseph Thornhill was the son of John and Elizabeth Thornhill, elder brother of master builder John Thornhill and uncle of master builder Joseph Thornhill, Jr.. As early as 1756 he was a resident of Philadelphia's Mulberry Ward and continued to live…
Member number: 22*
Birth date: 3/17/1714

Description: John Thornhill, "one of the most celebrated mechanicks in this or any other state...particulary distinguished for his abilities as an Architect," was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Thornhill. In 1741 he married Jane Cook at Christ Church who the…
Member number: 23*
Birth date: 10/23/1716

Description: John Thomson (Thompson) was a master builder elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1808. Little is known about his life. In the 1794 and 1795 City Directories, a John Thompson was listed at German street between Fourth and Fifth streets. In 1810,…
Member number: 235*
Date elected: 1/1/1808

Description: The master builder Moses Thomas was married in Burlington, New Jersey, in 1742. The date of his arrival in Philadelphia is unknown, as is the date of his election to The Carpenters' Company; he appears to have signed the articles of The Company…
Member number: 90*
Date elected: 1/1/1772

Description: Jacob Thomas was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1834. He served as a Company Warden from 1842 to 1844 and served two terms on the Managing Committee, first from 1845 to 1847 and again from 1849 to 1851.…
Member number: 323
Date elected: 1/1/1834

Description: 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. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Buildings, a project…
Member number: 197*
Date elected: 1/1/1796

Author: Mac Donald, George

Author: Froude, James A.
Date: 1882

Author: Froude, James A.
Date: 1882

Author: Cameron, Mrs. H. Lovett.
Date: 1889

Author: Hutchinson, A. S. M.
Date: 1922
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