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Please add Geni profiles of members of the Carpenters' Company to the project, and index the Charter Members listed below.
The Carpenters’ Company of the City and County of Philadelphia is the oldest extant craft guild in the United States. Founded in 1724, the Company consists of nearly 200 prominent Philadelphia area architects, building contractors and structural engineers and has had nearly 900 members in its almost three centuries of existence. The Company built, owns and continues to operate Carpenters' Hall located in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park. In 1774 the Hall served as the site of the First Continental Congress.
The guild (then referred to as a “Company”) was modeled after the Worshipful Company of Carpenters of London. Many early members were Quakers, whose beliefs influenced the Company’s mission to promote fair business dealings, expand educational opportunities and support members in times of need.
Charter Members
Taken from An Act To Incorporate The Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia: (you might want to tag profiles to the document as a "source")
That, for the purpose of promoting the useful and charitable objects before mentioned, the present members of the Carpenters' Company, that is to say,
- Isaac Zane
- John Mifflin
- Joseph Thornhill, ♊
- Benjamin Loxley
- James Worrell
- Gunning Bedford
- Thomas Nevell
- James Armitage
- Samuel Griscom
- James Pearson
- William Roberts
- Richard Armitt
- James Potter
- George Wood
- Joseph Rakestraw
- Silas Engles
- William Lownes
- Samuel Powell
- William Robinson
- James Bringhurst
- James Graisbury
- Thomas Shoemaker
- David Evans
- William Colliday
- William Ashton
- Samuel Jervis
- Samuel Wallis
- Matthew McGlathery
- Thomas Proctor
- Adam Zantzinger
- John Keen
- John Lort
- Joseph Govett
- Joseph Ogelby
- William Williams
- Robert Allison
- George Forepaugh
- John Smith
- Mathias Sadler
- James Gibson
- George lngles
- Frazer Kinsley
- James Corking
- Joseph Rakestraw, Junr.
- Joseph Thornhill, Jr.
- John King
- Andrew Boyd
- Conrad Barding
- William Garrigues
- John Rugan
- Mark Rhodes
- Robert Evans
- Joseph Wetherel
- Hugh Roberts
- Isaac Jones
- Samuel Pancoast
- Mathias Val Keen
- Wm. Stevenson
- Robert Morrel
- Richard Mosley
- John Reinhard
- Samuel Pastorius
- Josiah Matlack
- John Piles
- Joseph Clark
- William Zane
- Benjamin Mitchell
- Thomas Savery
- Nathan Allen Smith
- Samuel Jones
- John Hall
- Joseph Howell, Junr.,
- Israel Hallowell
- John Harrison
- Ebenezer Ferguson
- John Cooper
- William Linnard
- Jonathan Evans
- Joseph Worrell
- James Boyer
resources
- Carpenter Hall - timeline
- Wikipedia
- 1. Charles E. Peterson, "Carpenters' Hall" Historic Philadelphia (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1953), pp. 96–128
- 2. Roger W. Moss. "Carpenters' Hall," Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), pp. 42–47
- 3. Roger W. Moss, "The Origins of The Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia," in Charles E. Perterson (ed), Building Early America (Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Company, 1976), pp. 35–53
- Philadelphia Architects & Buildings Database
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