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William Poyntell (1756–1811)

Description

William Poyntell was born on 23 March 1756 in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. As a young man he immigrated to Philadelphia, where he married Anne Wilcocks (1759/60–1829, m. 1779) and worked as a bookseller, stationer, and wallpaper maker. (Among his customers were George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.) Poyntell was also a landowner, director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and shareholder in the Library Company of Philadelphia.

Citations

Horace L. Hotchkiss Jr., "Wallpaper from the Shop of William Poyntell," Winterthur Portfolio, Volume 4 (1968), 26–33.

"Memorandum Books, 1791," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/02-02-02-0001. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series, Jefferson’s Memorandum Books, vol. 2, ed. James A Bear, Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, pp. 808–860.]

Aurora General Advertiser (Philadelphia), 25 October 1811, page 1, column 4 (Newspapers.com).

William Poyntell in FERMAC Family Tree (Ancestry.com).

William Poyntell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates Index, 1803–1815 (Ancestry.com).

William Poyntell at Find a Grave.

William Poyntell at FamilySearch.