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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • the daughter of the American statesman Benjamin Franklin and his wife Deborah Read. Bache served as a lieutenant colonel in the Pennsylvania State Militia...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • the Founding Fathers of the United States, and his common-law wife, Deborah Read. Bache grew up in a large family of eight. Among his siblings were his...
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  • Ian Curtis (redirect from Deborah Curtis)
    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...
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  • 2002 Scar Tissue Mora Carlisle-Nevsky TV movie 2002 Benjamin Franklin Deborah Read Franklin TV miniseries documentary 3 episodes 2003 The Atwood Stories...
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    Khoikhoi woman Sarah Franklin Bache, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read Sarah Baker (actress), American actress and comedian Sarah Beeny, English...
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    Deborah Eisenberg (born November 20, 1945) is an American short story writer, actress and teacher. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University...
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    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...
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    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...
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    von Wylich und Lottum, Prussian army officer (b. 1716) December 19 – Deborah Read, spouse of Benjamin Franklin (b. 1708) December 20 – Paul Whitehead,...
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  • in Philadelphia during the convention. (Franklin's common law wife, Deborah Read, had died a year or so earlier. Martha Jefferson had just suffered a...
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    American Museum magazine American Revolution patriots Syng inkstand Family Deborah Read (wife) William Franklin (son) Francis Franklin (son) Sarah Franklin Bache...
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    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...
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    American Museum magazine American Revolution patriots Syng inkstand Family Deborah Read (wife) William Franklin (son) Francis Franklin (son) Sarah Franklin Bache...
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  • different perspective than the other wives. Franklin's common-law wife, Deborah Read, was deceased at this point, and his mistresses are not depicted, although...
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  • Dame Deborah Anne James DBE (1 October 1981 – 28 June 2022) was an English journalist, educator, podcast host and charity campaigner from London. In 2016...
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  • Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and Deborah Read. He had his early education in local schools. At the age of 16, Harwood...
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    American Museum magazine American Revolution patriots Syng inkstand Family Deborah Read (wife) William Franklin (son) Francis Franklin (son) Sarah Franklin Bache...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Deborah Sampson Gannett, also known as Deborah Samson or Deborah Sampson, was born on December 17, 1760, in Plympton, Massachusetts. She disguised herself...
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  • Read, English stalker Deborah Read (1708–1774), the wife of Benjamin Franklin Gabriel Read, Australian gold prospector John D. Read (1814–1864), American...
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    Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America and Deborah Read. In 1886, the African-American Galveston civil rights leader Norris Wright...
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    American Museum magazine American Revolution patriots Syng inkstand Family Deborah Read (wife) William Franklin (son) Francis Franklin (son) Sarah Franklin Bache...
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