George Wall (436)

Election date: 1785

George Wall (1743–1804) was a military officer, entrepreneur, inventor, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1785. Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania to a schoolmaster and his wife, George Wall Jr. and his father, George Wall Sr. were both members of the Bucks County Second Battalion. During the Revolutionary War, George Wall Jr. followed General George Washington in various campaigns, and in 1778 became Colonel and lieutenant of Bucks. Colonel Wall also founded the town of Wall’s Landing (now known as Lumberville), where the Paunacussing Creek meets the Delaware River. In Wall’s Landing he built two saw mills, a grist mill, a general store, a school for surveyors, and he served as Justice of the Peace. Wall’s Landing became an important hub of lumber manufacturing and trade in the Philadelphia area.



Member(s): George Wall
436.001
A description, with instructions for the use, of a newly invented surveying instrument, called the trigonometer : for the making and vending of which, the inventor hath obtained an exclusive right for twenty-one years, from the legislature of Pennsylvania : ... the whole illustrated with cuts, and an elegant engraving of the instrument.
Creator(s):
Wall, George, 1745?-1804 (Author)
Publication:
Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr. on the west side of Fourth-Street, near the University, [1788]
Subjects:
Surveying -- Instruments.
Record Source:
ESTC
References:
Evans 21568
APS Subjects:
Surveying
Editions:
1x 1788 (Philadelphia)
Editions Note:

One edition.

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Member(s): George Wall
436.002
State of the accounts of John Lacey, Junior, and George Wall, Esquires, late sub-lieutenants of the county of Bucks, as they have been liquidated and settled : in which is exhibited, for the information and satisfaction of the public, the amount of the fines received by them, and accounted for from March 1777 to March 1780, from the fourth battalion : with lists of the names of the persons, and the sums paid by them respectively, arranged in the order of their companies and classes : likewise the disbursement and appropriation of the monies thus collected.
Creator(s):
Bucks County (Pa.). Sub-Lieutenant (Corporate Author) | Lacey, John, 1755-1814 (Author) | Wall, George, 1745?-1805 (Author)
Publication:
Philadelphia: Printed by Robert Aitken, three doors above the coffee-house, in Market Street, [1783]
Subjects:
Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. | Pennsylvania -- History, Military.
Record Source:
ESTC
References:
Evans 18104, Evans 18105
APS Subjects:
American Revolution
Editions:
1x 1783 (Philadelphia), 1x 1785 (Philadelphia)
Editions Note:

Two editions: one in 1783 and one in 1785.

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