The Women of the American Revolution by Elizabeth F. Ellet

Author:Elizabeth F. Ellet [Ellet, Elizabeth F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Women, History, United States, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Social Science, Women's Studies
ISBN: 9780975366721
Google: yyVAswEACAAJ
Publisher: American History Imprints
Published: 2004-08-15T00:43:58+00:00

Sarah Bache

Table of Contents

"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 extensive as were then pursued by females in any of the American colonies.

In 1764, she was called to part with her father, sent to Europe for the first time in a representative capacity. The people of Pennsylvania were at that time divided into two parties-the supporters and the opponents of the proprietaries. The sons of Penn, as is known, had left the religion of their father, and joined the Church of England; and the bulk of that persuasion were of the proprietary party. The mass of the Quakers were in opposition, and with them Franklin had acted. After having been for fourteen years a

Mr. William Duane, to whose pen the reader is indebted for this sketch-is the grandson of Mrs. Bache.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.