Re: Ben Franklin's Sister Mary?
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In reply to:
Ben Franklin's Sister Mary?
1/03/00
Nancy:
According to "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" edition published by Barnes & Noble, 1994:
pg.36:"I had a brother-in-law, Robert Holmes, master of a sloop that traded between Boston and Delaware."
I wonder if he was any relation to Obadiah Holmes?
My interest in this family is with Benjamin's brother James...did he have a daughter Mary who married Arthur Aylesworth?Does anyone have any info on James?It appears when reading this autobiography, Benjamin and his brother James did not get along.
Benjamin writes that his father married young, and with his wife and 3 children came to New England about 1685.By the same wife he had 4 other children born in America, and by a second wife had 10 others, 17 in all; "of whom I rememberto have seen thirteen sitting together at histable, who all grew up to years of maturity and were married."
Sue