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3 unusual facts about Sarah Franklin Bache


Sarah Franklin Bache

Sarah Franklin “Sally” Bache (September 11, 1744 – October 5, 1808) was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read.

Born Sarah Franklin and known as "Sally" throughout her life, she was the only surviving child of her parents, Deborah Read and Benjamin Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin Bache (b. 1769, d. 1798 during the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1798.), a publisher, he was jailed and awaiting trial under the Sedition Act.


Seaton Schroeder

She was also a great-granddaughter of Sarah Franklin Bache and Richard Bache, and more notably she was the great-great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin as well as a niece of George Mifflin Dallas the 11th Vice President of the United States, serving under James K. Polk.

William J. Duane

Her mother was Sarah Franklin Bache the daughter of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America and Deborah Read.


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