* * Yesterday an election was held at the Carpenters' Hall, for choosing
officers for the new manufactory, set on foot for making woollens, linen, and
cotton, when Joseph Stiles was chosen Treasurer, James Cannon, Secretary, and
twelve managers, viz., Christopher Marshall, Jacob Winey, Isaac Gray, Samuel
Wetherill, Jr., Christopher Ludwick, Frederick Kuhl, Robert Strettle Jones,
Richard Wells, Thomas Tilbury, James Popham, and Isaac Howell, for one year.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of
Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the
American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 16
