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	Syng inkstand - Wikipedia
		The Syng inkstand was the inkstand used to sign the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.
		It was made by Philip Syng in 1752.
		He was a renowned silversmith and created fine works in silver and sometimes gold for the rich families of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syng_inkstand (84 words)

	Philip Syng (1703-1789), University of Pennsylvania Archives
		Irish-born Philip Syng was the son of Philip Syng, a silversmith.
		Syng was also elected to various public offices including city assessor, warden of the port, and treasurer of the city and county of Philadelphia.
		Syng was renowned as a silversmith, creating the finest work for Philadelphia's leading families.
	www.archives.upenn.edu /histy/features/1700s/people/syng_phil.html (419 words)

	Physick House
		She then deeded it to her famous brother, the doctor Philip Syng Physick, who at the time was undergoing a messy and public divorce.
		His mother's father, the renowned silversmith Philip Syng, designed the inkstand from which both the Declaration and Constitution were written, and which is still displayed at Independence Hall.
		Physick's grandfather, the renowned silversmith Philip Syng, designed the inkstand from which both the Declaration and Constitution were written, and which is still displayed at Independence Hall.
	www.ushistory.org /tour/tour_physick.htm (1101 words)

	Biography - Encylopedia Of Antiques
		Noteworthy collections of Stiegel glass are to be seen at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia.
		Syng made the inkstand on the Speaker's desk in the State House at Philadelphia where the Continental Congress met, and into this inkstand John Hancock dipped his pen before making his immortal signature on the Declaration of Independence, the other members following suit.
		George Washington also used the same inkstand in signing the adopted copy of the Constitution in the same hall in 1787.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles02/biography-s.shtml (1762 words)

	Pens & Accessories
		The academic inkstand originally was $0.33, while the traveling inkstand was $0.20.
		Barrel Traveling Inkstand, S. Silliman and Co., Chester, CT, advertised 1854.
		Silliman's, Fry's, Whitney's, and Draper's inkstands were advertised c.
	www.officemuseum.com /Pens.htm (876 words)

	Great Essentials an exhibition of democracy at Independence National Historical Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The silver inkstand that, according to tradition, was used during the signing of the Declaration and the Constitution reflects the elegance of thought contained in these documents.
		On two official occasions this borrowed inkstand played a symbolic yet crucial rote in the ceremonial history of the early republic.
		Since those moments of destiny, in all the years that have followed, these men have carried the honor of “Signers.“ And, as far as curators and historians can be certain, it was the Syng inkstand that facilitated their entry into this very restricted club.
	www.north-america.de /great_essentials.htm (1668 words)

	Travel Channel :: Philadelphia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Touches of Napoléon's France are everywhere: the golden bee motif woven into upholstery; the magenta-hue Aubusson rug (the emperor's favorite color); and stools in the style of Pompeii, the Roman city rediscovered at the time of the house's construction.
		Upstairs in the parlor, note the inkstand that still retains Benjamin Franklin's fingerprints.
		The house's most famous owner was Philip Syng Physick, the "Father of American Surgery" and a leading physician in the days before anesthesia.
	media.travel.discovery.com /destinations/fodors/philadelphia/sightsacts_30982_2.html (510 words)

	Philip Syng
		He was a member of the first Masonic Lodge, and held many offices, including that of vestryman of Christ Church, for which Cesar Ghiselin and Syng's father had made silver, and to which Queen Anne had given a service of plate in 1708.
		Syng is best known for having fashioned, in 1752, the inkstand (at a cost of £25/16/0) used at the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
		Philip married Elizabeth Warner, daughter of Swen Warner and Esther Warner, on 5 Feb 1730 in Philadelphia PA. (Elizabeth Warner was born on 29 Jan 1714 in Philadelphia PA, christened on 13 Apr 1732 in Christ's Church Philadelphia PA, died on 3 Oct 1786 and was buried in Christ's Church Philadelphia PA.)
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~silversmiths/makers/silversmiths/40578.htm (252 words)

	The Philadelphia Contributionship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Syng, yet another of those extraordinary early Philadelphians, was an eminent silversmith and creator of the inkstand from which the Declaration of Independence was signed.
		In addition to being a vestryman at Christ Church and a member of the Philosophical Society, Syng found time to design the corporate seal for The Contributionship.
		Policyholders were required to affix these metal fire marks on their houses.
	12.164.81.10 /tour/tour_contrib.htm (2106 words)

	Philip Syng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He was a member of the first Masonic Lodge, and held many offices, including that of vestryman of Christ Church, for which Cesar Ghiselin (q.v.) and Syng's father had made silver, and to which Queen Anne had given a service of plate in 1708.
		Syng is best known for having fashioned, in 1752,, the inkstand used at the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
		In 1772, Syng advertised his removal to Upper Merion Township, recommending to his friends and former customers the goldsmith Richard Humphreys.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~silversmiths/61/40578.htm (270 words)

	NPS Historical Handbook: Independence
		After at least one recorded failure to produce an instrument of pleasing tone, their efforts were successful, and, in 1753, the bell began its period of service, summoning the legislators to the Assembly and opening the courts of justice in the State House.
		Speaker's desk in Assembly Room, with Syng inkstand, "Rising Sun" chair, and Peale portrait of Washington.
		With the threat of British occupation of Philadelphia in 1777, the State House bell and other bells were hastily moved from the City to prevent their falling into British hands and being made into cannon.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/17/hh17h.htm (1956 words)

	Our Bookshop
		A silver gelatin photograph from the nineteenth century of the home in Philadelphia of Dr. Philip [Syng] Physik, the "Father of American Surgery" (Cycl.
		He was important in the introduction of catgut and other self-absorbing animal ligatures, the techniques for removing bladder stones (removing over 1000 stones from Chief Justice Marshall).
		His penchant for technology rather than writing and theory probably derived from his admiration of his grandfather, Philip Syng, a goldsmith and inventor, a member of the coterie about Benjamin Franklin, and the designer of the silver inkstand used in the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
	www.nvo.com /gadsbooks/displayroom/category.nhtml?catuid=10007 (5790 words)

	Physick House \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Philadelphia \| Frommers.com
		The house is the area's most impressive -- freestanding but not boxy, gracious but solid.
		Built during the 1780s boom, with money from importing Madeira wine, it soon wound up housing the father of American surgery, Philip Syng Physick (a very propitious name for a physician).
		The drawing room opens onto a lovely 19th-century walled garden, and contains a Roman stool and 18th-century Italian art, collectibles that illustrate the excitement caused by the discovery of the buried city of Pompeii at that time.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/philadelphia/A22661.html (241 words)

	My 2001 Summer Vacation: Philadelphia, etc.
		This is where the Second Continental Congress met and the Declaration of Independence was signed.
		Although most of the furniture is not authentic (used as firewood by the British during their occupation in December 1777), Philip Syng's silver inkstand used by most of the Declaration's signtories is still in the room.
		This park, Independence Square, was where the Declaration of Independence was first read to the public.
	www.joepearce.org /pictorials/phily01/phily.html (433 words)

	Independence Hall \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Philadelphia \| Frommers.com
		Thomas Jefferson worked on a summary of why the colonists felt that independence was necessary.
		The resulting Declaration of Independence, wrote noted historian Richard Morris, "lifted the struggle from self-interested arguments over taxation to the exalted plane of human rights." Most of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence used Philip Syng's silver inkstand, which is still in the room.
		The country first heard the news of the Declaration on July 8 in Independence Square.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/philadelphia/A32265.html (997 words)

	Day 35 : Philidelphia, PA : : : roadtrip.beimers.com : : :
		Besides Cream Cheese, Philidelphia is best known for The Syng Inkstand.
		This legendary inkstand was the inspiration for the very backbone of American history.
		Without it, the Declaration of Independence would not have been signed, and thus, America would still belong to England.
	roadtrip.beimers.com /day35.html (755 words)

	Pens and Accessories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Also, Silliman's, Fry's, Whitney's, and Draper's inkstands were advertised c.
		Advertisement for rubber ink erasers, quill pens [including illustration to use] 1884
		Batchelder, inkstand, US patent no. 20,028, April 27, 1858.
	www.netangola.com /EarlyOfficeMuseum/Pens.htm (470 words)

	Jan-June 1998
		Syng's daughter Abigail married Edmund Physick, last Propietary General and Keeper of the Great Seal for the Penn family.
		Physick's son, Dr. Philip Syng Physick is known as the "Father of American Surgery".
		As a sculptor I have created amoung others a "We the People" fireback which features the Syng Inkstand and the Rising Sun Chair of Independence Hall.
	www.ushistory.org /writearc/write_1998a.htm (11332 words)

	Arch (or Mulberry) Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		(1703-1789) was a well-known silversmith (a term used more or less interchangeably with goldsmith, back then) who is best known for having made the standish (inkstand) used for the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
		Born in Ireland, September 29, eldest son of Philip and Abigail Murdock Syng.
		September 14, 1738: "Silversmith, on Front Street." The electrical machine used by Franklin in 1747 was a contrivance of Syng's.
	home.earthlink.net /~shackamaxon/arch.html (6008 words)

	GoPhila.com CultureFiles - The Philadelphia Contributionship
		In 1752, Franklin and members of his Union Fire Company met with representatives from other brigades to form a fire insurance company: The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insuring of Houses from Loss by Fire.
		Philip Syng, the silversmith who created the inkstand from which the Declaration of Independence was signed, designed the company’s metal fire mark.
		The company moved into its current building in 1836.
	www.gophila.com /culturefiles/museums/philacontributionship (252 words)

	Montgomery County: The Second Hundred Years - 1983
		Anderson, Dr. Joseph W. Descendant of Dr. James Anderson who purchased "St. Georges" house and 104 acres in Ardmore in 1811, once the country place of Philip Syng, colonial silversmith.
		For 146 years a Dr. Anderson lived at "St. Georges," the garden of which is now the site of the Ardmore YMCA.
		A Syng inkstand used at signing of Declaration of Independence.
	www.lowermerionhistory.org /texts/biographies.html (11684 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - Philadelphia Independence - Carpenter's Hall - Pictures, Tips and Reviews
		Within Independence Hall, you can find a collection of the "tools of the trade" of democracy.
		Pictured at left is the Syng Inkstand, which was used in the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
		It is located in the West Wing, as part of the Great Essentials exhibit.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/Pennsylvania/Philadelphia-860659/Things_To_Do-Philadelphia-Independence_Carpenters_Hall-BR-6.html (382 words)

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