Born 1760, died 1823, son of William Franklin, Governor of New Jersey. He was brought up principally by his grandfather, for whom he acted as secretary in Paris, during the Revolution, and by whom he was saved from following his father to Toryism. The reproduction is from an etching by Albert Rosenthal of the portrait in the Trumbull Collection, Yale School of Art.
Mrs. Franklin[116]
This reproduction is from the portrait painted by Matthew Pratt, and now in the possession of Rev. F. B. Hodge, of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Sarah Bache[119]
This picture is copied from an engraved reproduction which has often appeared in books relating to Franklin; but none of these reproductions are faithful copies of the original painting, which represents an older and less handsome woman, with more rugged features and more resemblance to Franklin. Permission to reproduce the painting could not be secured.
Front Page of the First Number of the “Pennsylvania Gazette”[135]
Reproduced by permission from the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Title-Page of Poor Richard’s Almanac for 1733[144]
Reproduced by permission from the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.