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Sarah Franklin Bache (September 12, 1788 – October 6, 1863), married Thomas Sergeant (1782–1860), who later was appointed as an associate justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and postmaster of Philadelphia.
Learn all about Sarah Bache and her role in the American Revolution.
Born Deborah Read in 1707; died of a stroke in December 1774; married a man named Rogers; common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin from 1730 to 1774; children: Francis Folger (b. 1732, died of smallpox) and Sarah Bache (1743–1808).
It is here, in the penumbra of historical records, that we find the remarkable and peculiar life of Miss Sarah Franklin Bache, the daughter of the esteemed Benjamin Franklin. THE ENIGMA OF A MIDDLE NAME
Sarah Bache, the only daughter of Benjamin Franklin, and wife of Richard Bache, a Philadelphia merchant. In 1780, when many soldiers of the American army were going barefooted and half-clad, money was collected for their relief and expanded for materials, which by the labors of many women were soon made into the needed garments.
One of the most popular women of her day in her native city was Sarah Franklin. She was born in 1744 the daughter of Benjamin and Deborah Read Franklin in the city of Philadelphia. Carefully educated by her father, she was said to be as broadly educated as any woman in the Colony.
Bache, Sarah Franklin (1743-1808) Wartime Relief Worker: The youngest child of Benjamin and Deborah Franklin, Sarah Franklin married Richard Bache in 1767, and bore eight children. After a decade devoted to her family, she joined Esther De Berdt Reed's fund-raising committee in Philadelphia.
