Franklin, Josiah
1652 - 1745 (92 years)
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Name Franklin, Josiah [1, 2] Born 23 Dec 1652 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA 
[1, 2] Gender Male Arrival 1682 Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find A Grave Memorial 1496 Residence 1696 Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Died 16 Jan 1745 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA [1, 2] Buried Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA [1] - Granary Burying Ground
Person ID I33237 Sullivan Burgess Family Tree | Ancestors of Benjamin Franklin Last Modified 1 Jan 2017
Father Franklin, Thomas, b. 08 Oct 1598, Ecton, Northamptonshire, England , d. 24 Mar 1681, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England (Age 82 years) Relationship natural Mother White, Jane, b. Jan 1617, Ecton, Northamptonshire, England , d. 30 Oct 1662, Ecton, Northamptonshire, England (Age ~ 45 years) Relationship natural Married 1636 England Family ID F10765 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Child, Anne, b. 1655, Ecton, Northamptonshire, England , d. 09 Jul 1689, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 34 years) Married 1676 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Children 1. Franklin, Elizabeth, b. 02 Mar 1677, Ecton, Northamptonshire, England , d. 25 Aug 1759, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 82 years) [natural]Last Modified 1 Jan 2017 Family ID F11315 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Folger, Abiah Lee, b. 15 Aug 1667, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA , d. 18 May 1752, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 84 years) Married 25 Nov 1689 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Children 1. Franklin, John, b. 07 Dec 1690, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA , d. 30 Jan 1756, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 65 years) [natural]2. Franklin, Peter, b. 22 Nov 1692, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA , d. 01 Jul 1766, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 73 years) [natural]3. Franklin, Mary, b. 26 Sep 1694, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA , d. 1731, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA (Age 36 years) [natural]4. Franklin, James, b. 04 Feb 1696, Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA , d. 04 Feb 1734, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA (Age 38 years) [natural]5. Franklin, Sarah, b. 09 Jul 1699, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA , d. 23 May 1731, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA (Age 31 years) [natural]6. Franklin, Ebenezer, b. 20 Sep 1701, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA , d. 05 Feb 1703, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 1 years) [natural]7. Franklin, Thomas, b. 07 Dec 1703, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA , d. 17 Aug 1706, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 2 years) [natural]+ 8. Franklin, Benjamin, b. 17 Jan 1706, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA , d. 17 Apr 1790, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 84 years) [natural]9. Franklin, Lydia, b. 08 Aug 1708, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA , d. 1758, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 49 years) [natural]10. Franklin, Jane, b. 27 Mar 1712, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA , d. 1795, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 82 years) [natural]Last Modified 1 Jan 2017 Family ID F11317 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 3 Hammond, Elizabeth, b. 1654, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Married 17 Apr 1695 Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Last Modified 1 Jan 2017 Family ID F11316 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 23 Dec 1652 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA 
Married - 1676 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA 
Arrival - 1682 - Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Married - 25 Nov 1689 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA 
Married - 17 Apr 1695 - Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA 
Residence - 1696 - Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Died - 16 Jan 1745 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Buried - - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Family Crest Franklin Family Crest
This interesting old status name has its origins in the feudal system of medieval England. It derives from the Middle English "frankelin", from the Anglo-Norman French "franc" meaning free, in the sense of liberal and generous, plus the germanic suffix "ling". The status of the Franklin varied somewhat according to time and place in medieval England; in general, he was a free man and a holder of fairly extensive areas of land, a gentleman ranked above the main body of minor freeholders, but below a knight or a member of the nobility. The surname dates back to the late 12th Century, (see below). One, Luke le Franckeleyn is registered in the Cambridgeshire Feet of Fines (1234). In the modern idiom the name has six spelling variations, Frankling, Francklyn, Francklin, Franklen, Franklyn and Franklin. On February 11th 1560, George Franklin married Agnes Hills, at St. Dionis Backchurch, London. The American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), was of British descent. His father, a maker of soap and candles, had emigrated in about 1682, from Ecton, Northamptonshire, to Boston, where his son was born. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Ralph Frankelein, which was dated 1195, in the Pipe Rolls of Yorkshire, during the reign of King Richard 1, known as "The Lionheart", 1189 - 1199. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Notes - Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler, a soap-maker and a candle-maker. Josiah was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith-farmer, and Jane White. Benjamin's mother, Abiah Folger, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger (Governor Thomas Mayhew's assistant), a miller and schoolteacher, and his wife Mary Morrill, a former indentured servant.
Josiah Franklin had 17 children with his two wives. He married his first wife, Anne Child, in about 1677 in Ecton and emigrated with her to Boston in 1683; they had three children before emigrating and four after. After her death, Josiah married Abiah Folger on July 9, 1689, in the Old South Meeting House by Samuel Willard. Benjamin, their eighth child, was Josiah Franklin's 15th child and tenth and last son.
Josiah Franklin and Abiah his wife lie here interred. They lived lovingly together in wedlock fifty-five years. Without any estae, or any gainful employment, by constant labor and industry, with God's blessing, they maintained a large family comfortably, and brought up thirteen children and seven grandchildren reputably. From this instance reader, be encouraged to diligence in thy calling and distrust not Providence. He was a pious and prudent man; she, a discreet and virtuous woman. Their youngest son, in filial regard to their memory places this stone.
- Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler, a soap-maker and a candle-maker. Josiah was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith-farmer, and Jane White. Benjamin's mother, Abiah Folger, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger (Governor Thomas Mayhew's assistant), a miller and schoolteacher, and his wife Mary Morrill, a former indentured servant.
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