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3 days ago · When Benjamin Franklin Bache, the tempestuous grandson of Benjamin Franklin, wanted to attack President John Adams, he inveighed against his old age as a shorthand for an old generational aping...
1 day ago · Sarah Phillips (Reo Jones) is a bright-eyed, red-headed teenage girl from England who travels to the Thirteen Colonies in 1773 at age 15 in search of her father, Major Phillips, who was last heard exploring the region of Ohio. Upon her arrival, she is warmly welcomed by and lives as a guest of Benjamin Franklin.
Jan 1, 2009 · He uses the first person narrative of William Duane, assistant and successor to Benjamin Franklin Bache (founding editor of the Philadelphia Aurora and grandson of Benjamin Franklin) to report the political battles waged between Federalists and Republicans at the end of the eighteenth century.
2 days ago · As a ragged nine-year-old, he saw her buried in the forest, then faced a winter without the warmth of a mother’s love. Fortunately, before the onset of a second winter, Thomas Lincoln married Sarah Bush Johnston, who moved from Kentucky to Indiana to make a family with Thomas Lincoln.
1 day ago · John Adams, the first vice president (1789–97) and second president (1797–1801) of the United States. He was an early advocate of American independence and a major figure in the Continental Congress.
4 days ago · Franklin owned three homes on Market Street in Philadelphia, other property within Philadelphia and pastureland on Hickory Lane next to the city. He transferred the right to use that property together with his "silver plate, pictures and household goods" to his daughter Sarah Bache and her husband Richard Bache for use "during their natural lives."
2 days ago · Abigail Adams’ absentee husband John spent most of 1776 in Philadelphia, as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress. Fiercely patriotic, Adams argued forcefully for independence from Great Britain. The Congress appointed him to a committee of five, with Benjamin Franklin (PA), Thomas Jefferson (VA), Robert Livingston (NY), and Roger Sherman (CT), to draft a declaration of their rationale.
