Published Biographical References

• Hall, Louise. "Artificer to Architect in America." Ph.D. Dissertation, (Radcliffe College), Harvard University, 1954.
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• Moss, Roger W. "Master Builders: A History of the Colonial Philadelphia Building Trades." Ph.D Dissertation, University of Delaware, 1972.
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• Minutes of The Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. (Manuscripts in the Library of the American Philosophical Society)
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• Scharf, John Thomas & Thompson Westcott. History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884. Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1884., v. 3, p. 1888
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• Roach, Hannah Benner (1907-1976). Bibliographical card file, ca. 1718-1795. ca. 9000 cards. (American Philosophical Society Manuscript Collection)
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• Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Philadelphia: 1877-, v. 5, n. 1, p. 85-101, 1881
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• Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Philadelphia: 1877-, v. 7, n. 4, p. 483, 1883
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• Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Philadelphia: 1877-, v. 12, n. 4, p. 456-463, 1883
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• Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Philadelphia: 1877-, v. 18, n. 3, p. 354-360, 1894
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• Futhey, John Smith, and Gilbert Cope. History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with genealogical and biographical sketches. Philadelphia, L. H. Everts, 1881, p. 774.
   
• Hiltzheimer, Jacob. Extracts from the diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia; 1765-1798. Ed. by his great-grandson, Jacob Cox Parsons. Philadelphia, Press of W. F. Fell & co., 1893, p. 142.
   
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Minutes. v.I, (6 August 1739), p. 93.
   
• Tennet, Gilbert. Sermons on Important Subjects. Philadephia, 1758. (James Worrel subscribed)
   

Biographical Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

• Worrell, Joseph Portrait, Carpenters Company - General Collection
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• Cope, Gilbert. Descendants of John and Mary Lewis Worrall and of Peter and Mary Worrall all of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. (Worrall Family Chart, 1917), Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
   
• Peterson, Charles E. "The Carpenters' Company Architectural School," Unpublished manuscript (1983) supplied by the author, copy at The Athenaeum of Philadelphia.
   
• Photograph of portrait of Worrell, c. 1815 (Athenaeum of Philadelphia biography file)
   

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