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Comly, Jacob
Description:
Jacob Comly was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1795. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Sandra L. Tatman.
Member number:
187*
Date elected:
1/1/1795
Paul, Samuel
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
Sproul, John
Description:
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.…
Member number:
185*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Stewart, James
Description:
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. Biography…
Member number:
183*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Rhoads, Charles
Description:
Charles Rhoads was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He died in 1810. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
184*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Leech, Daniel
Description:
Daniel Leech was a master house carpenter 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:
181*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Zigler, Jacob
Description:
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,…
Member number:
180*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Davis, Isaac
Description:
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.…
Member number:
182*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Lancaster, Thomas
Description:
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. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum…
Member number:
179*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Paul, David
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
Clarke, Aaron
Description:
Aaron Clarke was elected to membership in the Carpenters Company of Philadelphia in 1794. Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Sandra L. Tatman.
Member number:
175*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Mulock, Edward
Description:
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. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.…
Member number:
177*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Simes, Samuel
Description:
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.…
Member number:
176*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Johnson, Samuel
Description:
Samuel Johnson, a master builder who served his apprenticeship under John Harrison, was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1793 and excluded in 1805. Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of…
Member number:
173*
Date elected:
1/1/1793
Garrigues, Edward
Description:
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.Biography from thePhiladelphia…
Member number:
174*
Birth date:
1/1/1756
Date elected:
1/1/1793
Powell, William
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
Wayne, Samuel
Description:
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.biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of…
Member number:
171*
Date elected:
1/1/1793
Crozier, Matthew
Description:
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…
Member number:
166*
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Paschall, Benjamin
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
Thornton, Benjamin
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
Jordan, Robert
Description:
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…
Member number:
169*
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Kellinger, Philip
Description:
Philip Kellinger was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. He died the following year. Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
168*
Birth date:
2/1/1769
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Colladay, Abraham
Description:
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…
Business name:
Carpenter
Member number:
165
Birth date:
1/11760's
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Morris, Joseph
Description:
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…
Member number:
164*
Birth date:
1/1/1770
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Colladay, Jacob
Description:
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. biography from thePhiladelphia…
Member number:
163
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Steel, Alexander
Description:
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…
Member number:
162*
Date elected:
1/1/1791
Krider, William
Description:
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…
Member number:
161*
Date elected:
1/1/1791
Knight, Daniel
Description:
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…
Member number:
159*
Birth date:
9/12/1759
Date elected:
1/1/1791
Snowden, George
Description:
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…
Member number:
160*
Date elected:
1/1/1791
Boyer, James
Description:
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. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a…
Member number:
158*
Date elected:
1/1/1788
Harrison, John
Member number:
157*
Date elected:
1/1/1788
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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