Samuel (e. 1771) Rhoads (311)

Samuel Rhoads, Jr. (1740–29 November 1784 ) was a merchant, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1771. Born in Philadelphia to founding APS Member Samuel Rhoads, Sr., and his wife, the junior Rhoads seems to have worked adjacently to his architect father. By 1764 he began helping the senior Rhoads in the building of Benjamin Franklin’s house on Market Street, most of his work coming as a disbursing agent. Starting in 1769, Samuel Rhoads, Jr. appears in Pennsylvania tax records as a brickmaker, and he also worked as a port warden. Following in his father’s footsteps until the very end, he died mere months after Samuel Rhoads, Sr.