Re: Ben Franklin's Sister, Mary
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In reply to:
Ben Franklin's Sister Mary?
1/03/00
Benjamin Franklin's sister Mary Franklin married Captain Robert Holmes. In Benjamin Franklin's autobiography he states:
"I had a brother-in-law, Robert Holmes, master of a sloop that traded between Boston and Delaware. He being at Newcastle, forty miles below Philadelphia, heard there of me, and wrote me a letter mentioning the concern of my friends in Boston at my abrupt departure,accommodated to my mind if I would return, to which he exhorted me very earnestly. I wrote an answer to his letter, thank'd him for his advice, but stated my reasons for quitting Boston fully and in such a light as to convince him I was not so wrong as he had apprehended."
Capt. Robert Holmes was the son of Rev. William Holmes and Katherine Craighead.
Katherine Craighead was a daughter of the Rev. Robert Craighead (1633-1711), and she emigrated to Boston with her husband and her brother, the Rev. Thomas Craighead (ca1670-1739) in 1714 or 1715.
I am descended from Rev. Thomas Craighead's son, the Rev. Alexander Craighead, and his daughter Nancy Craighead.
Phillips Verner Bradford
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