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20 de abr. de 2024 · Jane Franklin was born at Blue Ball house on Union Street in Boston, Massachusetts on March 27, 1712. Mecom never attended school, as public schools in Boston did not enroll females. Though Mecom never attended school, she learned to read and write under the tutelage of Benjamin Franklin. This education under Benjamin Franklin continued until ...
30 de abr. de 2022 · Jane Franklin Mecom was Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and his only true lifelong correspondent. He encouraged her to learn to read and write, and the two of them exchanged letters until ...
1 de jun. de 2006 · Jane Franklin Mecom was the youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin. She was not, in any other respect, overtly extraordinary. As a widowed, middleaged woman of Boston, struggling to keep herself afloat with a small business and often dependent on the charity of her relations, she must have been typical of a great many women who faced the Revolutionary crisis, and engaged with it in their own way.
13 de fev. de 2017 · My power was always small tho my will is good. — Jane Mecom ("Jane Mecom, Her Book." image via Princeton) Any child in America grows up learning every detail of Benjamin Franklin's life -- his time in his beloved Philadelphia, the time with the kite and the lightning, the building of the library, his role in the Constitution, his time as a diplomate in France, all of it.
On July 21, 1786, Mecom responded to Franklin by stating that “sometimes the Betys has the Brightest understandings.”. The “Betys” – undereducated, working-class women – could indeed be society’s brightest. Perhaps Mecom saw Betty as a kindred spirit and counted herself among the Bettys of the world.
1 de jul. de 2013 · Edward Mecom Marryed to Jane Franklin the 27th of July 1727. The Book of Ages: her age. Born, March 27, 1712; married, July 27, 1727. Fifteen years four months. She was a child.
Jane Franklin Mecom was the youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin. She was not, in any other respect, overtly extraordinary. As a widowed, middle aged woman of Boston, struggling to keep herself afloat with a small business and often dependent on the charity of her relations, she must have been
