Richard Bache
(1737-1811)
BIRTH
September 12, 1737
PLACE
Settle, England
DEATH
July 29, 1811
PLACE
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
FAMILY
WIFE
Sarah Franklin Bache
(1743-1808)
CHILDREN
Benjamin Franklin Bache
(1769-1798)
CHILDREN
William Franklin Bache
(1773-1820)
CHILDREN
Elizabeth Franklin Bache Harwood
(1777-1820)
CHILDREN
Deborah Bache Duane
(1781-1863)
CHILDREN
Sarah Franklin Sergeant
(1788–1863)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
ANGLICAN, EPISCOPALIAN
MEMBERSHIPS
CHRIST CHURCH AND ST. PETER’S CHURCH WARDEN, SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF SAINT GEORGE MEMBER
AWARDS
Richard Bache (1737–1811) was an English-born merchant and marine insurance underwriter who settled in Philadelphia and married Sarah Franklin. He succeeded his father-in-law Benjamin Franklin as postmaster general in 1776, directing the Continental postal service until 1782. His appointment frustrated postal organizer William Goddard, who resigned. Bache later retired to Bucks County. His death date needs correction: the master gives July, while biographies give April.
EARLY LIFE
Richard Bache was born on Sep 12, 1737 in Settle, England. 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.
The available biographical record identifies Richard Bache with work or public activity as a merchant, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Richard Bache died on Jul 29, 1811 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Bache later retired to Bucks County. Richard Bache died on Jul 29, 1811 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
Christ Church Philadelphia
20 N American St, Philadelphia, PA 19106
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