Elizabeth Franklin

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin#Marriage_and_family

William Franklin married Elizabeth Downes on 4 September 1762 at St George's, Hanover Square in London. She was born in the English colony of Barbados to the sugar planter John Downes and his wife Elizabeth (née Parsons). She met Franklin while visiting England with her father in 1760.[7] They moved to the New Jersey colony in 1763.

William Franklin's wife Elizabeth died in 1777 while he was imprisoned as a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War. She was interred beneath the altar of St. Paul's Chapel in lower Manhattan, where she had resided after the British evacuated Perth Amboy. The memorial plaque on the wall at St. Paul's was commissioned by William Franklin from London, where he went into exile following the war.[7] He was a widower for more than ten years.

They had no surviving children.

• 1. "William Temple Franklin Papers, 1775-1819", American Philosophical Society, accessed 4 November 2012
• 7. Burstyn, Joan N (1997), Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women, Syracuse Univ Pr, pp. 20–21, ISBN 0-8156-0418-1.
• "Who Was Elizabeth Downes Franklin?"
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Temple_Franklin
• Find A Grave Memorial# 36741895