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Coats, Isaac, Jr. (d. 1790)
MASTER BUILDER
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Died: 1790 Isaac Coats, Jr., was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company by 1768 although no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to provide a specific date. 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 published in America. In April, 1776, the Committee of Salfety commissioned Coats to erect a powder magazine capable of holding 1000 barrels of powder on the northeast corner of Franklin Square. Although one of the largest contributors toward the construction of Carpenters Hall in 1770, he resigned from The Company in 1783.
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