William Franklin
BIRTH
Feb 22, 1730
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DEATH
November 17, 1813
London, England
FAMILY
FATHER:
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790)
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Franklin, William
(1730-1813)
William Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's son, was the last royal governor of New Jersey and a committed Loyalist. Arrested by Patriot authorities in 1776, he was imprisoned and later became a leading organizer of Loyalist activity from British-held New York.
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SISTER
Sarah Franklin Bache
(1743-1808)
William Temple Franklin
(1760-1823)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Site of Governor William Franklin's Home Marker | 497 Beverly Rancocas Rd, Willingboro, NJ 08046 | MARKER | ||
Proprietary House - New Jersey Governor's Mansion | 149 Kearny Ave, Perth Amboy, NJ 08861 | MARKER |
DIED:
London, England
Nov 17, 1813
William Franklin was born on Feb 22, 1730 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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 William Franklin with work or public activity as a 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. William Franklin died on Nov 17, 1813 in London, England. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.