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Jane Franklin Mecom (March 27, 1712 – May 7, 1794) was the youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin and was considered one of his closest confidants. Mecom and Franklin corresponded for sixty-three years, throughout the course of Ben Franklin's life, and some of their letters survive.
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- March 27, 1712, Boston, Massachusetts
- May 7, 1794 (aged 82), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Jane Franklin Mecom. Born on March 27, 1712, Jane Franklin was the youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin, who referred to her as his favorite sibling. The sister and brother corresponded regularly during their lives, and Jane eagerly followed her brother’s scientific and political career through his writings and their correspondence.
19 de dez. de 2013 · Jane Franklin Mecom was the youngest daughter of the Franklin family and the sister of Benjamin Franklin. She kept a book of ages with the dates of births, marriages, and deaths of her family, and corresponded with her brother, who was a famous scientist and statesman.
21 de set. de 2012 · Jane Mecom, Benjamin Franklin’s younger sister and closest confidante, died in 1794. Jill Lepore is writing a book to bring her back. The Harvard historian has spent years, off and on, researching the life of the little-known Mecom, who was the closest person to her iconic brother, exchanging letters with him for 63 years.
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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
1 de jun. de 2006 · This article seeks to elucidate the journey of one Boston woman through these times. Recently widowed, approaching old age, and living on the precipice of poverty, she faced family strain, financial loss, and painful uncertainties during the years of political crisis and agitation.
1 de jul. de 2014 · Making use of an astonishing cache of little-studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that...
