Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Josiah Franklin
1657 - 1745 (87 years)-
Name Josiah Franklin Born 24 Dec 1657 Ecton, Northamptonshire, England 
[1] Gender Male Baptised 28 Dec 1657 St. Mary Magdalene, Ecton, Northamptonshire, England [1] Died 16 Jan 1745 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts [1] Buried Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts [2] Person ID I17455 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK Last Modified 19 Sep 2020
Father Thomas Franklin, b. Bef 8 Oct 1598, d. 21 Mar 1682, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England (Age > 83 years) Mother Jane White, b. Bef 30 Nov 1617, d. Bef 30 Oct 1662 (Age < 44 years) Married Abt Nov 1635 Harbury, Warwickshire, England [1] Family ID F12428 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Abiah Folger, b. 15 Aug 1667, Nantucket, Massachusetts , d. 8 May 1752, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 84 years) Married 25 Nov 1689 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts [1] Children + 1. Mary Franklin, b. 26 Sep 1694, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts , d. 1731, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 36 years)2. Benjamin Franklin, b. 6 Jan 1706, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts , d. 17 Apr 1790, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Age 84 years)Last Modified 19 Sep 2020 Family ID F10713 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - He was by trade a dyer, but for lack of custom he became a soap-boiler and a tallow-chandler. He ridiculed his son Benjamin for writing poetry, saying (as reported by Benjamin) "Verse makers were generally beggars."
Josiah Franklin's son Benjamin on his father:
He had an excellent constitution, was of middle size, but well made and strong, and extremely active in whatever he undertook. He designed with a degree of neatness, and knew a little music.
He had sound judgment, and upon public and private matters his advice was sought by the leading men in Boston.
- He was by trade a dyer, but for lack of custom he became a soap-boiler and a tallow-chandler. He ridiculed his son Benjamin for writing poetry, saying (as reported by Benjamin) "Verse makers were generally beggars."
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Sources - [S4425] Benjamin Franklin's Family: Volume I, English Ancestors by Michael J. Leclerc. 2019.
- [S2742] Find a Grave page for Josiah Franklin.
- [S4425] Benjamin Franklin's Family: Volume I, English Ancestors by Michael J. Leclerc. 2019.