This is from a person I have known, and who contacted me today. It happened to mention the name CADWALADER, so I thought I would post it, just in case it was of use: ***** I did find out that ... Jacob SPERRY(d 1830 Philly) bought the brick house that the Catholic Historical Society. See below: Department of Interior The headquarters of the American Catholic Historical Society is a patrician four-story building on South Fourth Street, Philadelphia. Erected in 1810, its design is in the austere style of the Federalist period. The building is listed by the U.S. Department of Interior in the National Register of Historic places and designated Historic by the Philadelphia Historical Commission. A Most Proper Location In 1812 a home builder, Jacob Vogdes, acquired all the land on the east side of Fourth Street, south of Locust, for $1 and a mortgage from two Quaker families, the Brintons and Burds, to construct a row of huge homes on lots 25 feet wide, 172 feet deep, 4300 square feet in all. These would be the homes of the growing group of prosperous merchants, ship builders and bankers on nearby Second Street, then the main commercial artery of the city. Since public transportation was unknown, these businessmen sought residences near their establishments. In those days, as today, it was a most "proper" neighborhood. Directly across the street was Old St. Mary's Church, which was erected in 1763 and in 1808 served as the first Cathedral for the Diocese of Philadelphia. **The War of 1812 was in progress when the first owner, a merchant named Jacob Sperry, moved in and occupied it for the next 14 years. The building had three owners until, in 1881, it was bought by the Cadwaladers, the last family to live there. *****