Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache (1770-1836) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of Benjamin Franklin Bache. Benjamin Franklin Bache was a figure connected to a Revolutionary-era family whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Born in Saint Croix, Danish West Indies and later dying in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the course of this life reflects the movement of Revolutionary-era families across colonial, national, and sometimes Atlantic settings. Including Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.