Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Samuel CANBY
Samuel Canby was apprenticed to Ziba Ferris to learn the trade of carpenter and cabinet maker; but a few months before the conclusion of his apprenticeship, making up his mind to follow the business of a miller, he satisfied Ziba Ferris for the unexpired term of his service & moved to Brandywine 11-16-1771.
Living in the house on the Brandywine that had been his father's from the time of his marriage in 1775,
about 1790 he built a more commodious house on Market Street at the corner of Washington (now 14th) where he had room to gratify his hospitable disposition, and to have his friends around him, which he greatly enjoyed. His house for many years was the principal one in the place for the accommodation of Friends traveling on religious service. He was a very successful business man. Three closely written journals of Samuel Canby's have been permanently loaned to the Yale Library by Henry S. Canby containing much business data, & biographical sketches of dead Quakers.
fr Ancestry of Elizabeth DuPont Bryard, p 126 Samuel Canby donated or willed the land on which the
Orthodox Meeting House at 9th & Tatnall was built.
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