CHRIST CHURCH, Philadelphia
Dr. Physick’s connections to Christ Church begin with his great grandfather silversmith Philip Syng Sr. Arriving in Philadelphia from Ireland with his wife and three young sons in The following year Philip Syng Sr., made a copy of the English made flagon that was part of a three-piece set that had been a gift of Queen Anne to Christ Church in
Christ Church was founded in It was the first parish of the Church of England (Anglican) in Pennsylvania. It is also the birthplace of the American Episcopal Church.
Philip Syng Sr. also made a silver bowl for the massive fourteenth-century Baptismal Font that had been sent to Christ Church from England in Ancient at the time, this octagonal, walnut font is said to have been the one used for the baptism of Pennsylvania founder, William Penn, in at All Hallows Church, Barking-by-the-Tower, London. Dr. Physick, his children, his grandmother Elizabeth Warner Syng, and his mother Abigail Syng would all be baptized in the Penn Font using the Syng bowl.
Silversmith Philip Syng Jr., Dr. Physick's grandfather, was married to Elizabeth Warner in Christ Church on February 29, Philip Jr. later served as vestryman o
Philip Syng Edit Profile
silversmith
Philip Syng was a renowned silversmith who created fine works in silver and sometimes gold for the wealthy families of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is famous for making the Syng inkstand in , which was used during the ceremony of signing the United States Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution.
Background
Philip Syng was born in Cork, Ireland to Philip Syng, a silversmith by trade, and Abigail Murdock Syng. In the Syng family emigrated to the United States staying first in Annapolis, Maryland, and then moving to Philadelphia.
Education
Philip Syng, Sr. trained all his three sons as silversmiths.
Career
About the father, who had trained three of his sons in his work, left his family and business and returned to Annapolis to live and work to the end of his life. At the time of his father&#;s departure Syng took over the shop that had been established on Market Street and began to build for himself the reputation of being the finest craftsman of the family and one of the two finest that Philadelphia produced.
The most noted example of his silverwork is t
EDMUND PHYSICK
Edmund Physick, –
By Charles Wilson Peale
Edmund Physick was born in England in and was the sole surviving child of Mr. Timothy Physick by his wife Martha.
Young Edmund entered the Proprietary service as a clerk to Thomas Penn, son of William Penn, and first came to America in Edmund would eventually be named Thomas Penn's agent in Pennsylvania, and commission him Receiver General and Keeper of the Great Seal of the Province. Edmund Physick was the last to hold this position.
As the agent of the Penn family, Edmund Physick handled real estate transactions and collections of quit rents. Among his many communications and negotiations with property owners and their conflicting claims, Physick paid the Penn portion of the expenses for Mason and Dixon's surveying of the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the line establishing Delaware's western border.
Abigail Syng Sampler
When Edmund Physick married Abigail, the first of silversmith Philip Syng Jr.'s eighteen children by his wife Elizabeth Warner Syng, at Christ Church on February 2, , he was marrying a woman with deep roots in Philadelphia. Abigail's father who had arriving in Philadelph
Hill-Physick-Keith House - Philadelphia PA Real Haunted Places
This home was built in and served as the home of Philip Syng Physick, aka the “Father of American Surgery.” Dr. Physick lived in the home with his wife Elizabeth Emlen Physick until they separated in Dr. Physick continued living there alone until his death in Today the home is a museum, but it is said to be haunted by the wife he separated from. Witnesses can account seeing her at the yard near the spot of where a tree was chopped down shortly before her death.
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