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Deborah Read Franklin. Born c. 1707. Died December 19, 1774. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Businesswoman. D eborah Read Franklin played an important role in the founding of the United States simply by taking on the management of her family business. By doing so she allowed her husband, founding father Benjamin Franklin see entry, the opportunity ...
30 de abr. de 2022 · Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...
But Deborah Read Rogers would. Thus, as Franklin later wrote, the former couple’s “mutual Affection was revived,” and they were joined in a common-law marriage on September 1, 1730.
4 de jul. de 2023 · Unable to marry Benjamin Franklin formally, Deborah Read enters a common law marriage with him. This union lasted thirty-four years, until her death in 1774. The marriage produced two children, Francis Folger Franklin and Sarah Franklin. Deborah Read (c 1708 – December 19, 1774)
3 de feb. de 2024 · Deborah Read. Philadelphia, PA, USA. At age 17, Franklin proposed to 15-year-old Deborah Read while a boarder in the Read home. At that time, Deborah's mother was wary of allowing her young daughter to marry Franklin, who was on his way to London at Governor Keith's request, and also because of his financial instability.
THE correspondence of Mrs. Deborah Read Franklin in the collections of the American Philo-. sophical Society includes one hundred letters from Franklin to his wife between April 1755 and Sep- tember 1774, and thirty-five letters from Deborah. Franklin to her husband between February 1765 and November 1773. Of the letters from Frank- lin to his ...
27 de feb. de 2023 · Here are a few surprising facts about Ben’s spirited wife. She and Ben were never legally married. She moved into his house on September 1, 1730, in a common law marriage. After living together for six months, Ben brought home his illegitimate son, William, whom Deborah was forced to raise. Deborah was a skilled bookkeeper to whom Ben ...
