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Shoemaker, Thomas (fl 1770s - d. 1799)
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Died: 1799 Thomas Shoemaker was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company on 1 February 1769, the same year he appears in the Philadelphia tax lists as a resident of the North Ward. He was an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan, The British Architect (1775), the first book of architecture published in America, and the following year he is recorded as taking the inventory of plumber Eden Haydock's estate. For the last twenty years of his life, Shoemaker served on committees or as an officer of The Carpenters' Company (Master, President, and Treasurer). By the time of his death he was clearly a person of means with extensive real estate holdings.
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