Family tree Willems Hoogeloon-Best » Deborah READ (± 1708-1774)

Personal data Deborah READ 

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Household of Deborah READ

She is married to Benjamin FRANKLIN.

They got married.


Child(ren):

  1. Sarah FRANKLIN  1744-1808 


Notes about Deborah READ

Deborah Read Franklin (about 1708 – December 19, 1774) was the spouse of Benjamin Franklin, who himself was a prominent inventor, printer, thinker, revolutionary and Founding Father of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin proposed to Deborah Read in 1724 when he was eighteen years old, but her mother would not consent to the marriage, citing Franklin's pending trip to England and financial instability. While Franklin was away in England, having been stranded there by Sir William Keith's failure to follow through on promises of support,[1] Read married John Rogers, who fled soon after. Because of this, Benjamin and Deborah were not free to marry formally. John Rogers disappeared into history, after spending Deborah's dowry, incurring much debt, and using the marriage to further his own schemes. Franklin states that Rogers died in the West Indies.[2]

When Ben returned, he and Deborah began a common-law marriage in 1730. They had two children together: Francis Folger Franklin[3] (October 20, 1732 - November 21, 1736), who died of smallpox at age four, and Sarah Franklin Bache (September 11, 1743 – October 5, 1808), called Sally. Together they also raised William Franklin (~1730 - November 17, 1814), Franklin's illegitimate son and later Colonial Governor of New Jersey.

Benjamin Franklin did not leave London to visit Deborah even after she wrote to him in November 1769 saying her illness was due to “dissatisfied distress” because of his prolonged absence.[4] She did not accompany him on his frequent trips to Europe due to a fear of travel over the sea. In the late 1760s and early 1770s, Deborah suffered a series of strokes that slurred her speech and memory.

Deborah Read Franklin suffered a stroke on December 14, 1774, and died on December 19, 1774, while Benjamin was on an extended trip to England. She was buried at Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia, and Benjamin Franklin was buried next to her after he died in 1790.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Deborah READ

Deborah READ
± 1708-1774


Benjamin FRANKLIN
1706-1790

Sarah FRANKLIN
1744-1808

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Day of death December 19, 1774

  • The temperature on December 19, 1774 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1774: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
    • May 10 » Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
    • June 2 » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
    • July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
    • July 21 » Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
    • October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.


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