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Published Biographical References

  • Pennsylvania Archives. Philadelphia: J. Severns & Co., 1852-1856; Harrisburg: 1874-1919., v. 14, p. 207, 386, 538, 815
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  • Roach, Hannah Benner (1907-1976). Bibliographical card file, ca. 1718-1795. ca. 9000 cards. (American Philosophical Society Manuscript Collection)
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  • Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, Three Centuries of American Art : Bicentennial Exhibition, April 11-October 10, 1976 : [catalogue]. [Philadelphia] : Philadelphia Museum of Art, c1976. , p. 33, 81
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  • Moss, Roger W. "Master Builders: A History of the Colonial Philadelphia Building Trades." Ph.D Dissertation, University of Delaware, 1972.
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  • Hall, Louise. "Artificer to Architect in America." Ph.D. Dissertation, (Radcliffe College), Harvard University, 1954.
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  • Minutes of The Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. (Manuscripts in the Library of the American Philosophical Society), 2/15/1763
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  • Minutes of The Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. (Manuscripts in the Library of the American Philosophical Society), 4/18/1763
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  • Minutes of The Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. (Manuscripts in the Library of the American Philosophical Society), 1/21/1765
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  • Minutes of The Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. (Manuscripts in the Library of the American Philosophical Society), 4/27/1767
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  • Minutes of The Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. (Manuscripts in the Library of the American Philosophical Society), 1/17/1774
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  • Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Philadelphia: 1877-, v. 42, p. 196, 1918
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  • Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (periodical) 1941-, v. 15, p. 25, 12/1956
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  • Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. Philadelphia: 1895 -, v. 22, p. 33, 1961
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  • Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. Christ Church, Baptisms, 1709-1768. Philadelphia: 1906, v. 102, p. 282, 305, 338, 383.
     
  • Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. Christ Church, Marriages, 1709-1800. Philadelphia: 1907, v. 179, p. 4102, 4451.
     
  • Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. Records of the Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of Oxford, Philadelphia, Company, 1711-1855. Philadelphia: 1894, v. 12, p. 2.
     
  • Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, Burials, 1709-1785. Philadelphia: 1907, v. 174, p. 3340.
     
  • Independent Gazetteer. (January 11, 1783).
     
  • Peterson, Charles E. "Building of Christ Church, Philadelphia," In 1981 Antiques Show: A Benefit for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: 1981, p. 134.
     
  • Philadelphia Wills and Records. Book "I," 56: #4: 1783.
     

Biographical Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

  • Christ Church Archives, Accounting Warden's Journals, 1708-1880. (March 16, 1746; October 13, 1752; February 7, 1756; May 4, 1759; June 27, 1760; November 6, 1761; March 19, 1763).
     

 

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