William Poyntell (1756–1811)
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.
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.