Elizabeth Franklin Bache Harwood
(1777-1820)
BIRTH
September 10, 1777
PLACE
NAME
Elizabeth Franklin Bache
DEATH
1820
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Richard Bache
(1737-1811)
MOTHER
Sarah Franklin Bache
(1743-1808)
BROTHER
Benjamin Franklin Bache
(1769-1798)
BROTHER
William Franklin Bache
(1773-1820)
SISTER
Deborah Bache Duane
(1781-1863)
SISTER
Sarah Franklin Sergeant
(1788–1863)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Eliza; Betsy
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth Franklin Bache Harwood (1777–1820), also called Eliza, was a daughter of Richard and Sarah Franklin Bache and a granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin. She married John Edmund Harwood in Germantown in 1800. Their children included Andrew Allen Harwood, later a U.S. Navy admiral; she was widowed in 1809. The American Philosophical Society preserves an undated letter she wrote to her brother William Bache. This letter and family records anchor her identity.
EARLY LIFE
Elizabeth Franklin Harwood was born on Sep 10, 1777. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Franklin Harwood is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Franklin Harwood died in 1820. Elizabeth Franklin Bache Harwood, also called Eliza, was a daughter of Richard and Sarah Franklin Bache and a granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin. She married John Edmund Harwood in Germantown in 1800. Their children included Andrew Allen Harwood, later a U.S. Navy admiral; she was widowed in 1809. The American Philosophical Society preserves an undated letter she wrote to her brother William Bache. This letter and family records anchor her identity. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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