Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . 1750 to 1756, says: Pennsylvania, in re-gard to its iron works, is the most advanced of all the Americancolonies. At an uncertain period before 1750 William Branson andothers established on French creek the Vincent steel works forthe manufacture of cemented steel. Acrelius describes them, butthey were not active at the time of his visit. Mrs. James says thatthey were the first steel works in Pennsylvania and were built bySamuel Nutt prior to 1734, but William Branson was probablyassociated with him in this enterprise. Branson appears
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . 1750 to 1756, says: Pennsylvania, in re-gard to its iron works, is the most advanced of all the Americancolonies. At an uncertain period before 1750 William Branson andothers established on French creek the Vincent steel works forthe manufacture of cemented steel. Acrelius describes them, butthey were not active at the time of his visit. Mrs. James says thatthey were the first steel works in Pennsylvania and were built bySamuel Nutt prior to 1734, but William Branson was probablyassociated with him in this enterprise. Branson appears to haveowned the works in 1737. Samuel Nutt. in his will, written inthat year, makes no mention of them. Alxnit 1736 Nutt and 344 Natural Resources Branson built a new Reading furnace. Acrelius says: AtFrench creek, or Brau/^s works, there is a steel furnace, luiiltwith a draug-ht-hole, and called an air-oven. In this iron barsare set at the distance of an inch apart. Between them are scat-tered horn, coal-dust, ashes, etc. The iron bars are thus covered. William Bigler Editor; elected State senator, 1841; ; United States senator, 1855; delegate-at-large to State Constitutional Convention,1873 with blisters, and this is called blister-steel. It serves as the beststeel to put upon edge-tools. These steel works are now said tobe out of operation. In 1750 there was a plating forge to work with a tilt-ham-mer in Byberry township, in the northeastern part of Philadel-phia county, the only one in the province, owned by John Hall,but not then in use. In the same year there were two steel fur-naces in Philadelphia, one of which. Stephen Paschalls, was built 345 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal in 1/47 ^d stood on a lot on the northwest corner of Eighth andWalnut streets; the other furnace was owned hy William Bran-son and was located near where Thomas Penn first lived, at theupper end of Chestnut street. These furnaces were for the pro-duction of blister steel. Inhere
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