The chair has remained in the family of the original owner, Samuel Fisher, a Philadelphia merchant.
Between 1797 and 1800, Philadelphia merchants shipped 10,000 Windsor chairs to Havana alone.
Upon Morris's death in 1770, his brother Joshua sold the property to William West, another Philadelphia merchant.
It was generally known that Philadelphia merchants were greater smugglers of tea than their Boston counterparts.
She married William Vanhook, a Philadelphia merchant.
Some of this communication was effected through the services of Joseph Stansbury, a Philadelphia merchant.
It was built as a summer residence in 1744 by Philadelphia merchant and wine importer John Wister.
The town was named for John Savage, a Philadelphia merchant with interest in a mill on the falls of the Patuxent.
They were made around 1815 for a Philadelphia merchant, George Harrison, and his wife, Sofia.
He had entered into a "venture" with Josiah Shippin, a Philadelphia merchant, to the tune of seven hundred pounds sterling.
