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Deborah Read Franklin (c. 1708 – December 19, 1774) was the common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Why did Benjamin Franklin live apart from his wife Deborah for nearly two decades? A new theory suggests that a dispute over their son's smallpox inoculation was the root cause of their marital breakdown.
Deborah Read Franklin. Born c. 1707 Died December 19, 1774 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Businesswoman. Deborah Read Franklin played an important role in the founding of the United States simply by taking on the management of her family business.
Learn about the common-law marriage and children of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read, who he courted before going to England. Find out how Deborah assisted in the business, and how Franklin lost one of his sons to smallpox.
THE correspondence of Mrs. Deborah Read Franklin in the collections of the American Philo-sophical Society includes one hundred letters from Franklin to his wife between April 1755 and Sep-tember 1774, and thirty-five letters from Deborah Franklin to her husband between February 1765 and November 1773. Of the letters from Frank-
Deborah Read was Benjamin Franklin's common-law wife and the mother of his two children, Francis and Sarah. She managed the household, corresponded with her husband, and suffered a stroke before his death.
Deborah Read Franklin (c. 1708 – December 19, 1774) was the common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
