Deborah Franklin (Read) - Birth

Started by Adrienne Pilz on Friday, February 2, 2018
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2/2/2018 at 8:15 AM

Deborah Read Franklin would have been born in Philadelphia, not England, as her ancestor came over on the Mayflower. The family was already in America.

2/2/2018 at 1:00 PM

The Birmingham UK birth reference is here

https://books.google.com/books?id=sXsy9O4YeqMC&lpg=PA44&dq=...

More Colonial Women: 25 Pioneers of Early America
By Carole Chandler Waldrup Page 44

2/2/2018 at 1:03 PM

Her Quaker parents emigrated from Birmingham to Philadelphia in 1711.

Maybe there's something in the Quaker Meeting records.

2/2/2018 at 1:22 PM

Reference to her mother in Franklin’s papers

http://franklinpapers.org/franklin/framedNames.jsp?ssn=001-33-1022

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