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Deborah Reed. Deborah Read In 1724, while a boarder in the Read home, Franklin had
courted Deborah Read before going to London at Governor Keith's request. ...
... This girl's name was Deborah Reed. When Benjamin got the job at the Keimer
Printshop, he was arranged to stay at the Reed household. ...
... This girl's name was Deborah Reed. When Benjamin got the job at the Keimer
Printshop, he was arranged to stay at the Reed household. ...
... This girl÷Õ name was Deborah Reed. When Benjamin got the job at the Keimer
Printshop, he was arranged to stay at the Reed household. ...
... shilling. By 1729, he had bought and published The Pennsylvania Gazette.
He then married his landlady’s daughter, Deborah Reed. In ...
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Deborah Read
In 1724, while a boarder in the Read home, Franklin had courted Deborah Read before going to London at Governor Keith's request. At that time, Miss Read's mother was wary of allowing her daughter to wed a seventeen-year old who was on his way to London. Her own husband having recently died, Mrs. Read declined Franklin's offer of marriage.[3]
While Franklin was in London, Deborah married a man named John Rodgers. This proved to be a regrettable decision. Rodgers shortly avoided his debts and prosecution by fleeing to Barbados, leaving Deborah behind. With Rodgers' fate unknown, and bigamy illegal, Deborah was not free to formally remarry.
In 1730, Franklin acknowledged an illegitimate son named William, who would eventually become the last Loyalist governor of New Jersey. While the identity of William's mother remains unknown, perhaps the responsibility of an infant child gave Franklin a reason to take up residence with Deborah Read. William was raised in the Franklin household but eventually broke with his father over the treatment of the colonies at the hands of the crown. However, he was not above using his father's fame to enhance his own standing.
Franklin established a common-law marriage with Deborah Read on September 1, 1730. In addition to raising William, Benjamin and Deborah Franklin had two children together. The first, Francis Folger Franklin, born October 1732, died of smallpox in 1736. Sarah Franklin, nicknamed Sally, was born in 1743. She eventually married Richard Bache, had seven children, and cared for her father in his old age.
Deborah's fear of the sea meant that she never accompanied Franklin on any of his extended trips to Europe, despite his repeated requests.
Success as author
In 1733, Franklin began to publish the famous Poor Richard's Almanack (with content both original and borrowed) under the pseudonym Richard Saunders,...
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