The Philadelphia Directory, 1809, Part 1

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AMER F 158.2 . PSY 1809

PHILADELPHIA

DIRECTORY The Cellis tro 1809.

Brother

Containing the

NAMES, TRADES, AND RESIDENCE

OF THE

INHABITANTS

OF THE

GITY, SOUTHWARK, AND NORTHERN LIBERTIES ALSO,

A CALENDAR,

From the 1st of February 1809, to the 1st of February 1810

AND OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION. .

BY JAMES ROBINSON.

PRINTED FOR THE PUBLISHER,

And Sold by W. Woodhouse, No. 6, South Front street, Benjamin & Thomas Kite, No. 20, North Third street, and W. W. Woodward, corner of Chesnut and Second streets

ESTABLISHMENT

UNDER THE TITLE OF THE LOMBARD OFFICES

No. 48, SPRUCE STREET,

ONE DOOR FROM THE CORNER OF LITTLE DOCK, AND No. 266, Sansom's Row North Second,

Above Callowhill Street.

MONEY, Advanced upon Watches, Plate, Jewels, Household-Furniture, &c. &ºc. Also, MERCHANDIZE

On Moderate Terms,

Hours of attendance, every day in the week (Sundays, the 4th of July, Christmas, the 1st of January, and Good- Friday excepted) from 9 o'clock A. M. till 1, and from 3 P. M. until 7 in the evening.

To the Public.

Any Person having lost, being defrauded, or having pro- perty stolen are requested to leave a particular description of the same in writing at the above Offices called the LOM- BARD OFFICES, including their address, that the Pro- perty may be detained (if brought) and the parties secured ; as books are kept for entering the same without charge, and a reward of Five Dollars, upon conviction, will be paid. to the Prosecutor, by either of the above Offices to which the Property may be brought and detected,

WARRANTED GOOD TO ANY PLACE,

MAVISOLD BY

WILLIAM BOSWELL, Also to be had, Oysters in the shell, back of No. 10, North Front street, PHILADELPHIA.

STATED SALES AT AUCTION.

JOHN CONNELLY, 78, South Second. Dry Goods --- Tuesday Mornings, and Friday afternoons. Groceries --- Wednesday and Saturday mornings.

T .- B. FREEMAN, 177, High. Dyy Goods --- Tuesday afternoon's, Monday and Tuesday at noon. . Groceries --- Friday mornings.

JOSHUA LIPPINCOTT, 51, & 53, North Front. Dry Goods --- Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Groceries --- Tuesday and Friday at noon.

SAMUEL ISRAEL & Co. 56, North Front. Dry Goods --- Monday and Tuesday afternoons. Groceries --- Tuesday and Friday afternoons.

ANDREW BAYARD, 15, South Front. Dry Goods --- Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Groceries --- Tuesday and Friday afternoon.

JOHN MAC GREGOR, 133, South Front. Dry Goods -- Wednesday and Saturday mornings. Groceries --- Monday and Tuesday mornings. Books --- Wednesday and Saturday evenings,

INDEX.

SUPPLEMENT, Statistical Memorandums, Number of Buildings, &c. - Bible Society, -

Pages. 1

1-15

Statement of Deaths,

Names of the Inhabitants,

APPENDIX.

List of Streets, &c. -

Dutics payable by law on Goods, &c. 8

Ministers and Commercial Agents from the 22

United States to Foreign Nations, 5 Ministers of Foreign Powers, &c. 24

Government of the United States, 25

Insurance Companies.

North-America, 27

Phoenix, 28

Pennsylvania, - ib

Union, ib

Philadelphia, - ib United States, ib

Delaware, ib Marine,

Chamber of Commerce, ib

Turnpike, Bridge & Canal Companies. Schuylkill Bridge, 29

Do. and Suequehannah Canal, -

Delaware and Schuylkill Navigation, -

Lancaster and Philadelphia Turnpike, ib

Germantown, &c. -

Cheltenham and Willow-Grove,

Frankford and Bristol, -

Justices of the Peace and their Fees,

- 31-32

Constables and their Fees, -

- 32-37

Establishment of the Mails, -

Land and Water Stages,

- 34-36

For repairs, &c. of Pumps,

- 37

Superintendants of Laborers and Carts, For Hackney Coaches,

Chesnut-Hill and Spring-house, Philadelphia, Brandywine, &c. Vine Company, -

Corporation of Philadelphia,

INDEX.

Guardians of the Poor,

Pages. 38 39

Managers of the Alms-House, &c. -

University of Pennsylvania,

Library Company, -

4.0

Philosophical Society, -

Academy of the Fine Arts,

First Day or Sunday School,

ib ib

Medical Lyceum, -

ib ib

Pennsylvania Hospital,

Philadelphia Dispensary,

Board of Health, -

Humane Society,

4.3

Magdalen Society,

Alleviating Miseries of Prisons,

Inspector of Prisons, -

Abolition of Slavery, &c. -

Charity Schools, -

Incorporated German Society,

French Benevolent.

Do.

Scots Thistle

Do.

St. Andrew's

Do.

St. George's

Do.

St. Patrick's

Do.

Cincinnati Do.

Carpenter's

Do.

Master Taylor's Do.

Agricultural

Do.

46 ib

Union

Do.

Friendly St. Tammany Do.

ib ib

Associate of Friends, &c. Premium Society,

Bank United States, -

North-America,

ib ib 47 ib

Farmers' and Mechanics',

Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, -

Physicians, Midwives and Nurses,

- 49-51

51 -- 53

Courts of Pennsylvania, - Custom-House, Wardens and Rates of Pilotage, 54 Plan of the Wards, - Calendar, 56 55 -

. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,

College of Physicians, -

SUPPLEMENT.

ALEXANDER James, storekeeper 85 soutlı Water Allison rev. Benjamin, 70 south Eighth Amos F. grocer near 1st Turnpike Gate Germantown road Anderson John, grocer 96 south Water Apple George, carpenter 225 Swanson Atherton Humphrey, attorney at law 10 north Eighth Bazin Dque. & Co. apothecaries, &c. 11 north Second Beard James, grocer 12 south Wharves Beck & Lammot, merchants 11 and 12 south Water Betagh Miss, teacher 154 Mulberry

Biddle Charles jun. merchant 14 south Front

Bingham T. engraver and letter cutter Sixth near the 1st Turnpike Gate

Bogle Robert, storekeeper 46 south Eighth

Bohlen J. merchant 5 south Fourth

Boker Aaron, storekeeper 12 south Second

Boller Mrs. 1 south Sixth and 89 Sassafras

Bramble Charles, blacksmith 207 south Fifth

Bunner James E. 95 Pine

Bunting & Watson, lumber yard corner Eighth and Pine Calderwood Wm. gunsmith near 1st Turnpike Gate Ger- mantown road

Cathrall Willis, taylor 51 New

Clark Samuel, dyer 251 north Second

Closson William, tavernkeeper 204 north Water

Cochran Hugh, porter Seventh near Shippen

Coleman Alexander, weaver corner Shippen and Seventi

Coner Michael, carpenter 201 south Seventh

Croursauls - A. merchant 122 Spruce

Cummins William, hatter 130 north Fifth

Delaveau Isaac, shipwright 219 Swanson

Demorlier -, 23 Union

Diller Isaac, grocer 2 north Fifth

Doullis B. gentleman 35 Almond

Dueye Jacob, hairdresser 99 south Fifth

Dufief N. G. professor of French literature 10 south 8th

Dunn & French, merchants 48 north Front

Dunnahue M. soapboiler 304 and 305 south Third Dyer William, Heydes court

Edwards Jonathan, taylor 459 north Third

Evans J. currier near 90 north Front

Ewing Maskill, attorney at law 276 Mulberry Farquhar Benajah, painter 17 Cresson's alley Farris Edward, teacher 86 south Front Faussett James, brickmaker 66 Plum

Feinour Joseph, tinsmith 216 Swanson

Ferguson Robert, shoemaker south Juniper

Fernagus J. L. French bookstore and circulating library 88 south Front Fisher M. shoemaker 353 north Third Friel Patrick, taylor 148 S Third Garrettson Joshua, laborer Taylors alley Gesh John, carter 471 north Second Gibbs A. G. mariner 63 Cedar

SUPPLEMENT.

Glenn J. grocer corner Spruce and Seventh Golden Joseph, laborer 39 Mulberry Goodwin Thomas, merchant 366 High. Greenman Thomas B. gentleman 20 Oak (S) Guyer S. oak cooper 8 north Seventh Hopkins David & Co. ironmongers 269 High Jackson Thomas & Co. merchants 366 High Keefe John, vermicelli manufactory 19 Swanson Lechler Anthony, 3 Sterling alley Ley, Hupfeld & Co. sugar refiners 13 Sterling alley M'Farran M. & D. grocers 424 north Second M'Cutchen William H. & Co. merchants 56 north Front M'Donnald James, Walnut near Eleventh M'Euen Henry, 77 Plum M'Gee Samuel, carpenter 15 Fayette M'Kay Isabella, boarding house 28 Strawberry Mercer John & Co. grocers 12 south Wharves Morris Richard H. storekeeper 34 south Second Newman & Happ, back 391 north Front Nicholls James, baker Centre alley Noblet Dell, grocer 150 south Fourth

Norton Sarah, nurse 219 Swanson

O'Connor J. storekeeper 212 south Second

O'Conway J. broker Goforth alley Overman William, 11 Pine Palmer Amos, tavernkeeper 220 north Front Parham Jos. lumber yard corner Walnut and Ninth Pearson Martha, baker 476 north Second Piercie Jacob, potter 416 north Front Quail William, mate 27 Meade alley Quandrell Jane, shopkeeper Fourth above Brown Quigley Mary, shopkeeper Marys alley Quinn James, laborer 201 south Front Reed Sarah, boarding house 74 Penn Ricketts J. coach wheelwright Broad above Sassafras Ridgway B. & H. mantua makers 18 Elfreths alley Roberts E. gentlewoman 29 Church alley Roberts Joseph, accomptant 168 Mulberry Rogers P. K. M. D. near 306 High

Rogers John, ladies' shoemaker back 15 north Sixth Rogers John, shoemaker 58 Lombard and 138 Cedar Rogers Joseph, glue maker Pegg's

Rogers Mary, gentlewoman 67 Pine Rogers Samuel, neats foot oil manufactory 12th near Vine Rogers Robert, porter next 314 south Third

Rogers & Son, parchment, glue; whip and cowskin ma- nufacturers Peggs Ross David, carpenter 81 north Ninth Seckle George, watchman Locust near Ninth Sell Henry, painter, &c. near 487 north Second Shields Luke, carpenter Kunckle Sutter Peter Y. sea captain 130 Chesnut Thatcher Jane, tex store 40 Union

the alliter STATISTICAL

MEMORANDUMS

FOR

ROBINSON'S DIRECTORY,

1809.

PHILADELPHIA City and Suburbs contained, by enumeration, in the year one thousand eight hun- dred and six, Thirteen Thousand Two Hundred and Nineteen Houses, if we add the probable number erected in one thousand eight hundred and seven, say two hundred and fifty, and estimate the number in one thousand eight hundred and eight at six hun- dred, will be Fourteen Thousand One Hundred Houses ; and suppose each to average seven per- sons, gives a population of about One Hundred. Thousand Inhabitants. Thus it appears, that during an Embargo, which has paralyzed the energies of the country at large, but more especially of all the other sea-ports in the Union, the number of dwel- lings erected in the present year, have exceeded those of former times ; to which have been added a. Public School ; a Lutheran Church; two lofty Towers, for the casting of patent shot ; a Panorama for picturesque exhibitions ; a Circus or Riding School, to teach the science of horsemanship ; and, an Amphitheatre for equestrian performances.

The School above-mentioned, is calculated to ac -. commodate six hundred children, upon the com- pendious plan lately invented by a British philan- thropist ; and has been aptly denominated the Scat- tergood School, from the name of the person princi- pally instrumental to its foundation, under the li- beral patronage of William Sansom, Esq. ant-

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other benevolent Citizens; to diffuse the benefits of useful learning, and to introduce habits of order and industry among the Poor.

The Church is a building of seventy feet by 100, now finishing in a style of magnificence unusual in the edifices for sacred purposes in Philadelphia, of which there are forty-one appropriated for Public Worship.

One of the Shot Towers is one hundred and sixty- two feet high, erected by Paul Beck, Esq. and be- ing suitably terminated with an embattled parapet, is very ornamental to the western side of the City, contributing to break the monotonous outline of pri- vate buildings extending near three miles in length, too sparingly relieved by the solitary elevation of a single steeple ; since the spires of the State-House and the Presbyterian Meeting have been parsimo- niously taken down. The other Tower is a spiral cone, erected by Bishop & Co. one which would produce a handsome effect in a perspective view of that quarter of the City, were it not for the aukward protuberance of two unequal chimneys, a defect which it is hoped the proprietors will remove, ei- ther by reducing the chimneys to the level of the roof, or by running a rail round the eve, to conceal a deformity, of which the public have a right to com- plain in a structure where heighth exposes it to every eye.

The Episcopal Church dedicated to St. James, the tower of which it is hoped will not be permitted long to remain without a spire. The Bank of Phi- ladelphia, a fanciful building, but whose apartments are a pleasing specimen of the lightness and solidity peculiar to the Gothic style : and the new Peniten- tiary, a substantial and extensive edifice, well adapt- ed to the beneficial purposes intended, are not at present particularized ; because, though they are now finishing, the walls were carried up in 1807. Neither are the New Manufactories particularly enumerated, as many of them are of a yet longer standing ; and it would require more exactness than the limits prescribed to this essay would admit, to

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enter into a minute description, though the aggre- gate value forms a body of considerable amount in the calculations of political economy, furnishing conclusive evidence, that the Philadelphians are li- berally applying part of their wealth to the patriotic encouragement of every species of domestic manu- facture :- And if the same liberality was judiciously applied to the promotion of Turnpike Roads, the advantages to the State and to the City would be im- mensely great, always taking care that the objects and directions of the roads that are promoted, be calculated to produce the effect of convenient com- munication, from the extremities of the State to its own Capital, which there is reason to apprehend has not been the case with all the Turnpikes that have been made at the expense of Philadelphia capital- ists .- The road, of all others most important to us, and which can be finished within the moderate sum of seventy thousand dollars, remains neglected : " The Susquehannah and Tioga Turnpike," which is a continuation of the " Susquehannah and Lehigh Turnpikes ;" these roads, the last of which is com- pleted, and the first within the reach of so small a sum, would, with the trifling addition of a very few miles more, as will be seen in the statement follow- ing, form a chain of communication from this City to the head of the Seneca lake, a distance of two hundred and twelve miles, direct through the northwest of our own State, inevitably bring the produce of the western parts of the neighbouring States to this market, and open a vast extensive country, (now either locked up, or obliged to pursue circuitous routes to the City of New-York,) with this peculiar advantage attending, that the benefits can- not be diverted from this State and this City, into any neighbouring channel. For a more full illustra- tion of this subject, I shall introduce an extract from a statement made to Congress in the year 1807, viz :

" The two incorporated companies above refer- red to may be considered as parts of one entire un- dertaking, having in view, as they connect with

others, one great object, viz. to open a direct turn- nike communication between the city of Philadelphia and the head of the Seneca lake in the state of New- York ; a communication, which, in its direction, would be the nearest and best from Philadelphia and from New-York to the shores of Lake Ontario, above Sodus Bay, and to Upper Canada, as well as to Niagara, with its connections and dependencies ; and the safest at all times, being in its whole dis- tance through a fertile, and increasingly populous country, no part of which, in case of a foreign war, would be subject to the inconveniences of a frontier exposure.

"The distance from Philadelphia to the head of the Seneca lake, by the route contemplated, is but two hundred and twelve miles, which distance has been at different times, and with different views, appor- tioned into sections, and companies organised, or au- thorised by the Legislature, for turnpik ing the whole, except in Pennsylvania, that part of the road which is between Bethlehem and Weiss's ferry, (twenty- five miles), and in New York state from the state line to Newtown, (six miles), both which sections are in an open country through which there is now a good road.

"From the head of the Seneca Lake, to the Bay of Sodus, on Lake Ontario, is seventy miles, through a fine country ; so that from the city of Philadelphia to Sodus Bay, on that lake, communicating with and bounding on Upper Canada, is in the whole distance but two hundred and eighty-two miles, admitting in all its extent through Pennsylvania, (and we believe also through New York) of a good road.

" To dwell on the immense importance of such a communication to the United States, to the states of Pennsylvania and New York, to the city of Philadel- phia, or, to the interior country, would be superflu- ous to the enlightened Legislature for which the communication is intended, and might be deemed improper from us.

" The section of road first undertaken with a view of ultimately uniting the aforesaid points, was that

authorised by an act of the Legislature of Pennsylva- nia, passed March 19th, A. D. 1804, " Enabling the Governor to incorporate a company by the name of " the President, Managers, and Company of the Sus- quehannah and Lehigh Turnpike," to make an arti- ficial road from Nescopeck on the N. E. branch of the Susquehannah, to a place called Lausanne, on the North side of Nesquehoning creek, near its en- trance into the river Lehigh, a distance of thirty miles." This distance was in part through a moun- tainous country, but being about the middle ground, and that which presented the greatest obstacles, from its thin population, it was determined to com- mence the great object in view by first completing this section, which would demonstrate at the same time the practicability, and the expense of the re- mainder, and would also immediately open, by this short portage, the water communication from New- town, on the Tioga, to Philadelphia.

" It was accordingly undertaken in the autumn of 1804, and was completed in 1805, so that there is now a good turnpike road, through an heretofore al- most impassable wilderness, by which the produce. from the N. E. branch of the Susqnehannah at Nescopeck, may be brought to Lausanne at the head of the Lehigh navigation, and thence in times of fresh, and when the navigation of that river shall be improved, at all times, to Easton, Trenton, Phila- delphia, &c.

" The success of this first section of road, and its great benefit to all the surrounding country, in- duced an application to the ensuing Legislature for a continuance of it from Berwick (on the W. side of the Susquehannah opposite to Nescopeck) or Whopehawly, a few miles above it, to that point on the state line which is nearest to Newtown 'on the Tioga, in the state of New York. An act was accor- dingly passed on the 28th March, 1806, authorising a company called the " President, Managers, and Company of the Susquehannah and Tioga Turn- pike" for this purpose, which was duly organis- cd, and under whose direction the road is now pro -.

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gressing from Berwick, as fast as the limited sub- scription to its stock (which appears in the schedule hereto annexed) will admit. This section (which consists of seventy-one miles from Berwick to that point on the state line nearest to Newtown on the Tioga), terminates near the seventy mile stone on the line of the state of New York, front whence there is so good a road of six miles to Newtown, that a turnpike was not at present deem- ed necessary. From Newtown to the head of the Seneca Lake (eighteen miles) a company is au- thorised by an act of the Legislature of the state of New York to make an artificial road, which would thus terminate at its northren extremity, the communication proposed. The experience ob- tained in making the first section of thirty miles, and the information of the surveyor who has explored the whole of the section from Berwick to the state line, justify us in the opinion, that this last might be completed as the law requires, at an average rate of $1,000 per mile, amounting for the whole to $71,000 ; of which sum individuals have subscribed payable in money and in land 113 shares at $100 each, leaving a deficiency (to complete the whole number of shares contemplated) of 597 shares at $ 100 per share = $59,700.

"The completion of the whole of this section, or at least, the opening of it, so as to admit the free pas- sage of waggons, is essential to every part of the proposed plan, because its northren commencement is at that point to and from which, the greatest inter- course is contemplated, and a considerable part of its progress is through a country yet but thinly set- tled, and without any good roads. It is believed that $200, per mile, being $14,200, would enable the company to open the road, so as to answer every purpose of advantage, except the immediate receipt of toll, which, in a national view, would probably be the last consideration, as it has been of individual at- tention in every part of this important undertaking ; the patrons of which, while they had no doubt, that in a few years this receipt would amount at least to

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the legal interest of the money expended, were generally stimulated by considerations more inter- esting, and involving their individual interests in the increased prosperity which would be given to the agricultural interests of the state, and the com- mercial benefits to its capital.

" At the same session of the Legislature of Penn- sylvania, viz. on the 17th of March 1806, an act was also passed authorising the president and managers of the Susquehannah and Lehigh Turnpike Compa- ny, toextend the section of the thirty mile road, from its termination at Lausanne, to Weiss's ferry, for- merly called Fort Allen, on the Lehigh, where there is a good bridge over that river ; the distance of this section is five miles, and the number of shares authorised to be subcribed for its completion is six- ty, at $100 per share, making $6,000 ; which would be amply sufficient for the object. No part of this section, which, though small, is a very important one, has been yet undertaken, nor shares subscrib- ed ; a part of it of about one and a half miles is among the worst pieces of road in the whole distance, being through a very narrow defile between the mountain and the river Lehigh, which rises suddenly from its banks.

" The same act last mentioned, also authorises a branch road to be made from the main section of thirty miles to any point on the Susquehannah within three miles above the mouth of Whopchawly creek, and a subscription for making said branch road not to exceed fifty shares at $100 each. This subscription has not yet been made nor any part of it.

"From the termination of the five mile section t Fort Allen on the Lehigh, the distance to Bethle- iem is twenty-five miles, through an old settled ountry, with a road sufficiently good to satisfy he inhabitants, and for which no turnpike has been hought necessary. From Bethlehem to the Spring House tavern, a well known stage road (thirty-four iiles) an Act of Assembly authoriscs a turnpike Dad, not yet commenced. The last section from

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the Spring House tavern, over Chesnut Hill, and through Germantown to Philadelphia (eighteen miles) has a good turnpike road now completed. " Thus it appears, that in the whole distance of two hundred and twelve miles from Philadelphia to the head of the Seneca lake in the state of New York, by the route proposed, there is but thirty-one miles for which legislative sanction has not been obtained for the formation of a turnpike road, on principles "which it is believed would combine national and in- dividual utility. . That a very considerable progress has been made in the several sections of this great work, the practicability of the whole demonstrated, and its expense ascertained by the completion of se- veral parts to be very moderate, and trifling indeed, when compared with the numerous and extensive benefits necessarily flowing from it.

" These benefits are, however, at present out of the reach of attainment by individual exertion and capi- tal only, both of which have been extended as far, on these objects, in Pennsylvania, as they will go ; it is therefore with peculiar pleasure, that the friends of interior improvement see, at a moment when assis- tance is so necessary, the views of the government of the United States directed towards them, and en- couraged by its request for information, they ven- ture further, in taking the liberty of suggesting to the Secretary of the Treasury, their opinion, that the application of such means as the policy and liberali- ty of the government of the United States should de- yote to these objects, would probably be best appli- ed by the government becoming interested in the stocks of the several companies whose objects re- quire and deserve its support. Then would the funds they might thus devote, be directed under the superintendance of individuals, who would be pro- portionably interested in their faithful and economi- cal application to the objects intended, and without any compensations, or salaries, but such as were ab- solutely necessary to those employed in the actu- al superintendance and completion of the respective works

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The Philadelphia Directory, 1809, Part 1

Author: Publication date: 1785 Publisher: Philadelphia Number of Pages: 422

Author:
Publication date: 1785
Publisher: Philadelphia
Number of Pages: 422