Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1899, Vol. 23

The rector's wife, whom Franklin describes as a good natured, chatty old lady, also could remember many per sonal characteristics of members of the family.

Banbury was visited a few days later, where he met the husband of his deceased cousin Jane, daughter of John Franklin, and in the church-yard copied the inscription on the gravestone of his grandfather, Thomas Franklin.

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