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Gibson, James (d. 1809)
MASTER BUILDER
MASTER BUILDER
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Died: 1809 James Gibson was a master builder 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. Throughout the Revolution he served, as did many of the building trades craftsmen, in Baldwin's Artillery Artificer Regiment, rising from 1st Lieutenant to Captain between 1777 and 1781. He was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1782 but appears to have left Philadelphia for Baltimore shortly thereafter; he became a member of the Carpenter's Society of Baltimore in 1790 and returned his copy of The Carpenters Company price book from that city in 1807.
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