Individual Details
John FRANKLIN
(1716 - 26 Aug 1800)
The book, A History of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Vol II by Oscar Jewell Harvey & Ernest Gray Smith, states that he is John Sr. The following quote is from this volume, page 1227: "The John Franklin who was in Wyoming as early, at least, as June 1769, and who in 1776, '77 and '78 was a resident of Hanover Township, or District, was not John Franklin of Canaan -- as some local writers have stated -- but, was at the time of his coming here, an inhabitant of New York. (see Vol. I, page 512) John Franklin Sr. died at Canaan, August 20 1800.
Events
| Birth | 1716 |  | |||
| Marriage | 24 Dec 1745 | Falls Church, Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, British America - Keziah PIERCE | | ||
| Death | 26 Aug 1800 | Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States | | ||
| Burial | Mountain View Cemetery, North Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Keziah PIERCE (1727 - 1805) |
| Child | Abigail FRANKLIN (1747 - 1823) |
| Child | Amos FRANKLIN (1750 - 1836) |
| Child | John FRANKLIN (1749 - 1831) |
| Child | Susannah FRANKLIN (1754 - 1804) |
| Child | Lucy FRANKLIN (1754 - ) |
| Child | Mary FRANKLIN (1757 - ) |
| Child | Samuel FRANKLIN (1759 - 1827) |
| Child | Abiah FRANKLIN (1762 - ) |
| Child | Silas FRANKLIN (1765 - ) |
| Child | Billa FRANKLIN (1767 - 1772) |
| Child | Amos FRANKLIN (1771 - 1836) |
| Child | Jeremiah FRANKLIN (1773 - 1781) |
| Father | John FRANKLIN (1699 - ) |
| Mother | Ann PARRISH (1701 - 1716) |
| Sibling | Isaac Franklin ( - ) |
Endnotes
1. Rev. Thompson P. Ege, Dodson Genealogy: 1600 - 1907 (Philadelphia, PA: Deemer & Jaisohn, 1908), 223; digital scan, Sloan Foundation / The Library of Congress, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/dodsongenealogy101eget/page/n6 : Internet digital download file 23 March 2019; Para. 5.
2. Geni, "World Family Tree," database, MyHeritage, Geni.com (www.geni.com: viewed 19 March 2019), John Franklin and Keziah Pierce Family.
3. William T. Blair, The Michael Shoemaker Book: (Schumacher), Full (Scranton, Pa.: International Textbook Press, 1924), 668; digital, Brigham Young University, Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/michaelshoemaker00lai : accessed, viewed 23 March 2019; 2nd footnote paragraph.
4. Oscar Jewell Harvey, Ernest Gray Smith, A History of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania: From Its First Beginnings To The Present Time: Including Chapters Of Newly-Discovered, 3 (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: Raeder Press, 1909), 1227.
5. Ancestry.com (World Tree Project), F28.
6. Mrs. Margaret L. Trescott Hartman, "History of Huntington Valley" (dissertation , 1886), 1.
7. William T. Blair, The Michael Shoemaker Book: (Schumacher), Full (Scranton, Pa.: International Textbook Press, 1924), 96, 492; digital, Brigham Young University, Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/michaelshoemaker00lai : viewed 19 March 2019; Footnotes.
8. Rev. Thompson P. Ege, Dodson Genealogy: 1600 - 1907 (Philadelphia, PA: Deemer & Jaisohn, 1908), 224; digital scan, Sloan Foundation / The Library of Congress, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/dodsongenealogy101eget/page/n6 : accessed, viewed 19 March 2019; 1st partial paragraph.
9. Oscar Jewell Harvey, Ernest Gray Smith, A History of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania: From Its First Beginnings To The Present Time: Including Chapters Of Newly-Discovered, 3 (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: Raeder Press, 1909), Vol. II, pg. 1227.
10. Find A Grave, "Find A Grave ," database and images, Find A Grave (https://www.findagrave.com : viewed 6 April 2019), memorial page for John Franklin (20 Sug 1716-26 Aug 1800).