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  • Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register of the Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution, April 1775 to December 1783. Washington, DC: 1914., p. 513
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  • Hall, Louise. "Artificer to Architect in America." Ph.D. Dissertation, (Radcliffe College), Harvard University, 1954.
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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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  • Moss, Roger W. "Master Builders: A History of the Colonial Philadelphia Building Trades." Ph.D Dissertation, University of Delaware, 1972.
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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), 7/21/1788
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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), 10/20/1788
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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), 1/19/1789
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  • Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Philadelphia: 1877-, v. 74, p. 74-89, 1/1950
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  • American Philosophical Society Library. Exhibition of the Columbianum, or American Academy of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. Philadelphia: Bailey, 1795.
     
  • Smith, Ryan K. Robert Morris’s Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. 81, 86, 87 and 141.
     

 

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