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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.
Sarah, the only daughter of Benjamin Franklin, was born at Philadelphia on the eleventh of September, 1744. Of her early years no particulars can now be obtained; but from her father’s appreciation of the importance of education, and the intelligence and information that she displayed through life, we may presume that her studies were as ...
Learn about the life and achievements of Sarah Franklin Bache, the daughter of the renowned statesman and inventor. Discover how she overcame social and religious barriers, supported the American Revolution, preserved her father's legacy, and patronized the arts.
Sarah Bache was the only daughter of Benjamin Franklin and his common-law wife Deborah Read. She helped raise funds and sew uniforms for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and was praised by the Marquis de Chastellux.
When Hoppner painted Sarah Franklin Bache, she was approaching her fiftieth birthday. His rather sober image (Figure 5) shows her to have been a robust woman of upright carriage with an unlined face and a slight double chin. Her skin is rosy, her eyes and eye- brows dark brown. Her unpowdered, wavy graying
Sarah Franklin Bache (1743-1808) followed suit and wrote letters to her female friends soliciting their assistance, and women in New Jersey and Maryland copied the Ladies Association of Philadelphia model in their own fundraising efforts.Working independently and without the assistance of men, the Association collected more than $300,000 ...
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.
