Rhoads, Samuel re: indenture of Alexander Abrahams
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02471.35 Author/Creator: Rhoads, Samuel Place Written: s.l. Type: Document signed Date: 1774/12/19 Pagination: 1 p. + docket Order a Copy
[Continental Congress members]
RHOADS, Samuel, (1711-1784), Delegate from Pennsylvania; received a limited schooling and became a carpenter and builder; member of the city council in 1741; member of the provincial assembly 1761-1764 and 1771-1774; commissioner to a conference of western Indians and the Six Nations at Lancaster, Pa., in 1761; Member of the Continental Congress in 1774; mayor of Philadelphia in 1774; founder and member of board of managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital 1751-1781; director of the Philadelphia Library. (excerpted from bioguide.congress.gov)
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