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Deborah Read and Benjamin Franklin entered a common law agreement on September 1, 1730.
A bachelor in his twenties was frowned upon and Franklin at age 24 was set to find a wife.
Deborah Read, who he had courted before going to England, had married Roger Potter during his absence.
In 1727 Potter had ran away to the West Indies escaping creditors.
The wife of Thomas Godfrey, a mathematician who lived in part of Franklin’s house with his family and Junto member, tried to make a match between Franklin and a relative’s daughter.
Franklin started courting the girl and expected a large dowry for their marriage.
Benjamin franklin family biography letters
He had planned to use the dowry to pay the remaining debt for the printing house which added to 100 pounds. The parents declined to pay and the relationship was terminated as well as his friendship with Thomas Godfrey.
Method and Success of Inoculating the Small-Pox in New England, 1722.
Houghton Library—Harvard College Library
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