Hallowell, Israel

Hallowell, Israel

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 America. During the 1770s he took three boys as apprentices: Samuel Lawrence, Timothy Cummins, and Simon Fortiner. When the Friendship Carpenters Company merged with The Carpenters' Company in 1786, Hallowell signed The Company articles.


Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger W. Moss.

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Hallowell

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Tatman & Moss Bio Dictionary Phila. Architects page 333. 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 America. During the 1770s he took three boys as apprentices: Samuel Lawrence, Timothy Cummins, and Simion Fortiner. When the Friendship Company merged with The Carpenters' Company in 1786, Hallowell signed The Company articles. See Selected Bibliography in Tatman & Moss Bio Dictionary Phila. Architects. See also Morton, Pennsylvania Hospital. ------------------- Prime Directory: Listed as carpenter, April 7, 1790, in Pennsylvania Journal - but no address. ------------------ PA Gazette 6/25/1770 - # 14001 Advertises for return of a cow strayed from the commons of Philadelphia. Described as small black cow with white hind leg and the end of her tail white. Branded on her horns "J. Hallowell;" reward $2. PA Gazette 2/21/1771 - # 14001 Listed as a contributor to Pennsylvania Hospital in 1771. PA Gazette 7/20/1774 - # 18537 Advertises for return of an apprentice, a house carpenter, who left with set of clothing, presumed headed toward New York. Reward 40 shillings. PA Gazette 3/21/1781 - # 28806 Advertises sale of 180 acres 17 miles from city with dwelling and orchard. PA Gazette 10/17/1787 - #4707 Isaac Jones and Israel Hallowell elected street commissioners for Philadelphia. ------------------ Ancestry.com July 8, 1773, Timothy Cummins became an apprentice for a period of four years. "Apprentice, taught the trade of a house carpenter, found meat, drink, shoes, washing and lodging; to serve either in Philadelphia, Northern Liberties or Southwark with and under the care of his master, allowed three weeks every year in December to go and see his parents, and time to go to night school every winter, his father paying the expense of schooling."

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Seven transactions in sequence on page 179; also listings for John Hallowell.