Nearby site of Quaker Meeting House

Benezet School
3rd and Chestnut / 4th and Walnut.
Quaker who promoted education for black students and girls.

Antoine Bénézet (January 31, 1713 – May 3, 1784), was a French-born American abolitionist and
educator who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the early American abolitionists,
Benezet founded one of the world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free
Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage (after his death it was revived as the Pennsylvania Society for
Promoting the Abolition of Slavery); the first public school for girls in North America; and the Negro
School at Philadelphia, which operated into the nineteenth century.

Samuel Rhoads- Prominent Early Carpenters’ Company Member

Co-Founder of the Philadelphia Contributionship. An early insurance company

Joseph Henzey- Made the chairs of the first continental congress

We currently are in possession of about 6-7 of Henzey’s sackback chairs. One of which
is on display in our museum space. He also made chairs for Franklin’s library.

June 3, 1827 Jesse Kersey

The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends
Meeting of the Hicksites at Carpenters’ Hall

Andrew Griscom (Griscoms broadly)