• 40 Hannah Benner Roach, "Historical Report First Block Independence Mall, Bounded by Fifth, Sixth, Market and Chestnut Streets for the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Work No. 610, 18 July 1952," 22, explains that Kinsey purchased the lot from George Fitzwater and James Steel who had acquired it from Thomas Fairman, who purchased it from the original bonus lot owner, Thomas Harley.
• 41 Mary's father, Thomas Lawrence, had left her property, and her husband, a merchant, had owned a wharf on the Delaware and a great deal of real estate, slaves and other property. Howard M. Jenkins, The Family of William Penn," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 22 (1898), 88; Pennsylvania Gazette Oct. 1, 1746, Ap. 16, 1747, Dec. 27, 1748, Sept. 6, 1750, Jan. 20, 1757; Keith, Provincial Councillors, 454, which also notes that Masters served many years in the Assembly. Roach, "Historical Report," 23. His will appointed Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Fox, and Joseph Galloway as guardians and executors. Will Bk M, 38, PA Wills, 1682-1834.
• 42 Roach, "Historical Report," 23, states that Mary built her house "sometime during the next seven years" whereas Jenkins, "The Family of William Penn," 88 and Nicholas Wainwright, Colonial Grandeur in Philadelphia The Home of General John Cadwalader (Philadelphia, 1964), 149, state it was within a year of her acquisition. The 1762 Clarkson-Biddle map does not show the house. This writer has not found primary sources to verify when Masters built the house. Roach cites Dd. Bk. D-15, 117, for the deed of Aug. 5, 1768 to the additional lot on High Street. On post-1775, Jenkins, Ibid., 89, 91.
• 43 Roach, "Historical Report," 23; Jenkins, "The Family of William Penn," 87; PG May 28, 1772.
• 44 Contributionship Survey Bk. 1, 49
• 45 "Extracts from the Journal of Miss Sarah Eve, Written While Living in the City of Philadelphia in 1772-73, PMHB 5 (1881), 197.
• 46 PG Jan. 9, 1772; Jenkins, "The Family of William Penn," 87.
• 47 Roach, "Historical Report," 12, cites Db. Bk. D-15, 117, which evidently records both Lawrence's purchase and transfer of the property, Roach dates the deed to Mary Masters as Oct. 20, 1762. PG May 28, 1772 and, house sale, June 21, 1775. Jenkins, "The Family of William Penn," 86-90.