Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for Philip Jr. SYNG

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At the age of eleven, he accompanied his father, Philip SYNG, a goldsmith, to Philadelphia, arriving in the city 29 Sep 1714. Philip Syng Jr. was a Warden of Philadelphia, 1753, Treasurer of the City 1759-69, a founder of the Philadelphia Library Company, and original member of the American Philosophical Society, inventing an electrical machine and experimenting along with Benjamin Franklin, who acknowledged his valuable suggestions and discoveries. He was the promoter of the "Association Battery", organized for the defence of the city 1748. he was Provincial Commissioner of Appeals for Philadelphia, under Governor John Penn, 1765, a vestryman of Christ Church 1747-49, a trustee of the College and Academy of Philadelphia from its organization 1755 and a member of Franklin's "Junto". he was an original member of the "Colony in Schuylkill", the ancient fishing company organized 1 May 1732, now "The Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill", the name it adopted after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He took an active interest in the institutions of the city, was a Director of the Hand in Hand Insurance Company 1752 and one of the signers of the Non-important Resolutions 1765. He was a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital and Grand Junior Warden of the first Masonic Lodge organized in America. He made the silver inkstand used at the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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