Deborah Read information

Deborah Read Franklin (c. 1708 – December 19, 1774) was the common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin, polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United...

1723, 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...

give William's birth year as 1731. William was raised by his father and Deborah Read, his father's common-law wife; she had been abandoned by her legal husband...

sometimes known as Sally Bache, was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read. She was a leader in relief work during the American Revolutionary War...

the son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read. In 1736, four-year-old Francis contracted the smallpox virus and died...

the daughter of the American statesman Benjamin Franklin and his wife Deborah Read. Bache served as a lieutenant colonel in the Pennsylvania State Militia...

Sarah "Sally" Franklin, the only daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read, met Richard Bache while on a visit away from her parents. They were...

and Deborah Read. They objected, given his precarious finances and rumors that Bache was a fortune hunter. Although Franklin and his wife Deborah Read never...

Deborah Eisenberg (born November 20, 1945) is an American short story writer, actress and teacher. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University...

2002 Scar Tissue Mora Carlisle-Nevsky TV movie 2002 Benjamin Franklin Deborah Read Franklin TV miniseries documentary 3 episodes 2003 The Atwood Stories...

23 August 1975, Curtis married Deborah Woodruff, to whom he was introduced by a friend, Tony Nuttall. Ian and Deborah initially became friends and then...

People, nowadays, are unwilling either to commend or dispraise what they read, until they are in some measure informed who or what the Author of it is...

von Wylich und Lottum, Prussian army officer (b. 1716) December 19 – Deborah Read, spouse of Benjamin Franklin (b. 1708) December 20 – Paul Whitehead,...

American Museum magazine American Revolution patriots Syng inkstand Family Deborah Read (wife) William Franklin (son) Francis Franklin (son) Sarah Franklin Bache...

Franklin continued the business in his own name. In 1730, Franklin married Deborah Read, and after which, with the help of the Junto, he drafted proposals for...

be freed after his death. As a gift to her husband, Franklin's wife Deborah Read commissioned William Williams to paint a portrait of Benjamin Lay (portrayed...

American Museum magazine American Revolution patriots Syng inkstand Family Deborah Read (wife) William Franklin (son) Francis Franklin (son) Sarah Franklin Bache...

Deborah Treisman (born 1970) is the Fiction Editor for The New Yorker. Treisman also hosts craft conversations with The New Yorker short fiction contributors...

that he had been able to read a newspaper, held up to the light, from one street away; from two blocks away, he could still read the headlines; from four...

Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, which Franklin in his autobiography said he had read at the age of 16; Plutarch's Moralia translated by Philemon Holland; Lewis...

Deborah Sampson Gannett, also known as Deborah Samson or Deborah Sampson, was born on December 17, 1760, in Plympton, Massachusetts. She disguised herself...