Kinsley, Frazer

Kinsley, Frazer

Frazer (Frazier, Frasier) Kinsley was a master builder appointed by the Committee of Safety in 1776, along with Thomas Nevell and others to collect lead clock and sash weights to be used for ammunition. An "encourager" to the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's, The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the first book of architecture published in America, Kinsley was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1782. At the time of his death in 1791, he owned two architectural books valued at 1.2.6 pounds, presumably his subscription copy of Swan.

Written by Roger W. Moss, from the Philadelphia Architects and Builders website.

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Kinsley

Frazer

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Tatman & Moss Bio Dictionary Phila. Architects page 447. Frazer (Frazier, Frasier) Kinsley was a master builder appointed by the Committee of Safety in 1776, along with Thomas Nevell (q.v.) and others to collect lead clock and sash weights to be melted as ammunition for the Revolution. An "encourager" to the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan, "The British Architect," (1775), the first book of architecture printed in America, Kinsley was elected to The Company in 1782. At the time of his death in 1791, he owned two architectural books valued at one pound, two shillings, six pence, presumably his subscription copy of Swan. See Selected Bibliography in Tatman & Moss Bio Dictionary Phila. Architects. ------------------- Managing Committee Minutes-1782-3-20 Frazer Kinsley elected. ------------------ Prime Directory: Listed as carpenter, Front St. opposite Lombard (1785); also 395 S. Front St. (1791). ----------------- Ancestry.com October 4, 1771, James Bell taken as an aprentice for five years. "House carpenter to be taught the art, trade and mystery of a house carpenter, have two winters' schooling and be taught the first five rules in common arithmetic." ----------------- PA Gazette, 5/22/1776 - #22207 Committee of Safety appointed Frazer Kinsley, Thomas Nevell and others to receive lead, paying at the rate of six pence per pound; clock weights excepted since iron weights not yet available. PA Gazette 7/23/1778 - #25075 Advertising sale of salt works at Great Egg Harbor, with salt pans, other equipment, buildings, stable with horses, oxen and a milk cow. ----------------

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