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Jones, Isaac (1744-1807)
MASTER BUILDER
MASTER BUILDER
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Born: 1744, Died: 1807 Isaac Jones was the brother of Abraham Jones, and a master builder elected to the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1769. 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. Jones signed the articles of The Carpenters' Company when the Friendship Company was absorbed in 1786. When the Mutual Assurance Company was founded in 1784, he became chief surveyor of properties and a member of the Board of Trustees (1785), serving in both capacities until 1807 when he fell through a Delaware Rive wharf and drowned.
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