Browse Items (477 total)

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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

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

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

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

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

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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

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/architect Thomas Nevell, who designed the most famous Philadelphia country house--Mt. Pleasant (1763)--and founded a school of architecture in Philadelphia (1771), was the son of Thomas and Mary Nevell. By 1730 both of his parents…
Member number: 35*
Birth date: 1/1/1721

Member number: 494*
Date elected: 11/13/1896

Member number: 462*
Date elected: 9/10/1883

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

Member number: 404
Date elected: 1/23/1867

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

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

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

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

Description: Joseph Moore was a master builder in Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1834. In 1835, he was listed as a carpenter at 12th below Spruce street. Later City Directories have three Joseph Moores listed as carpenters. Moore served the…
Member number: 318*
Date elected: 1/1/1834

Member number: 381
Date elected: 1/15/1855

Description: Bethuel A. Moore was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in Philadelphia in 1829. He resided at Carlton Square below 12th street. Bethuel Moore died in 1851.Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Buildings, a project of…
Member number: 300*
Date elected: 1/1/1829

Description: James Mitchell was a master builder elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1809. He was probably the son of Company member Benjamin Mitchell who resided at 229 Arch street. In 1799, James Mitchell resided at 231 Arch street but had moved to the corner…
Member number: 243*
Date elected: 1/1/1809

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Description: Benjamin Mitchell was a master builder who joined the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1770; and when that company merged with The Carpenters' Company in 1786, he signed the articles. Written by Roger W. Moss, from thePhiladelphia Architects and…
Member number: 141*
Date elected: 1/16/1786

Description: John Adam Miskey was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1835. The City Directory for the same year lists him as a carpenter living at Apple street above Mechanic street. Miskey died in 1882 and was buried in Woodside…
Member number: 326
Birth date: 10/13/1807
Date elected: 1/1/1835

Member number: 387a
Date elected: 7/30/1862

Member number: 88*
Date elected: 1/1/1771

Description: Master builder and merchant John Mifflin was the son of John Mifflin of Kent County (DE) who married Hannah Taylor in 1747. Elected to The Carpenters' Company well before the date of earliest surviving records, Mifflin was totally inactive in Company…
Birth date: 1/1/1720
Date elected: 1/1/1760

Description: Benjamin Mifflin was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company by 1770, although no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to provide a date. He was often absent from Philadelphia, and references to his working in northern Delaware…
Member number: 86*
Date elected: 1/1/1770

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Description: Thomas Middleton was a master builder believed to have come to Philadelphia in 1762 from Monmouth County, New Jersey. He signed the articles of The Carpenters' Company in 1770 and died the following year. Written by Roger W. Moss, from…
Member number: 78*
Birth date: 1/1/1716
Date elected: 1/1/1770

Description: George G. Meyers was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1833. Meyers served as a Company's Warden in 1843 as well as three terms on the Managing Committee in the 1840s and 1850s. In 1845, He was listed in the…
Member number: 306
Date elected: 1/1/1833

Member number: 467*
Date elected: 11/4/1885

Member number: 419
Date elected: 1/15/1872
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