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Jacob Franks

Jacob Franks[1]

Male 1688 - 1769  (81 years)

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  • Name Jacob Franks  [2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Born 1687-1688  London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7] 
    Gender Male 
    Alt. Birth 1688  London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Naturalized 21 Aug 1710  [6] 
    • New York, New York
    Reference Number 396 
    Residence Newport, Newport, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    _UID 01C65BF2B98A4A0C8FA07122A30ACD846DC8 
    Died 16 Jan 1769  New York, New York (Manhattan), New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7] 
    Person ID I396  aojd-demo
    Last Modified 20 Mar 2012 

    Family Bilhah Abigaill Levy,   b. 26 Nov 1696, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 May 1756, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years) 
    Married 1712  New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 7, 9, 10, 11] 
    Children 
     1. Richa Franks,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Abraham B. Franks,   b. 1713, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Apr 1797, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
     3. Naphtali Franks,   b. 1 Jul 1715, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Oct 1796, Mortlake, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
     4. Moses Franks,   b. 1 Jan 1719,   d. 2 Apr 1789, Teddington, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
     5. David Franks,   b. 23 Sep 1720, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Oct 1794, Isleworth, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)
     6. Phila Franks,   b. 19 Jun 1722, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Mar 1811, Smith Street, Chelsea, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years)
     7. Sara Franks,   b. 26 Jan 1731,   d. 20 Nov 1733  (Age 2 years)
     8. Aaron Franks,   b. 8 Dec 1732,   d. 21 Jul 1738  (Age 5 years)
     9. Abigail Franks,   b. Abt 1734,   d. Yes, date unknown
     10. Rebecca Franks,   b. 27 Dec 1742, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Mar 1803, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years)
    Last Modified 11 Nov 2011 
    Family ID F152  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • "Jacob was a sucessful NY merchant" [3]
    • (Research):AJLLJ Portraits Database 5 Aug 2011

      This son of an English broker, Jacob Franks, came to New York around 1708 and was naturalized there in August of 1710. A merchant involved in shipping and wholesale, in 1712 Jacob carried out business with relatives in England, as part of a mercantile network that spanned the Atlantic, the Caribbean, Europe and beyond.
      In 1712 he married Bilhah Abigail Levy, daughter of fellow merchant Moses Raphael Levy.
      Franks was very active in New York's Jewish community, and was one of the four men who laid the cornerstone of Shearith Israel in 1729. The following year he served as the congregations parnas.
      Franks was never able to achieve the type of wealth he and his wife believed he should. Accusations were even leveled that this was because he had been taken advantage of by his English relatives with whom he did business. Writing to their eldest son, Naphtali, who had gone England to work in his uncle's firm, Abigail complained, "I think your Fathers Treatment from you & your Uncle Especially from the Latter is more Like a Slave than Freeman."
      As the Franks children became Tories, they almost all left the United States after the Revolution. [12]

  • Sources 
    1. [S285] AOJD & Heritage Muse, Inc., David M. Kleiman, (AOJD-online.net. Heritage Muse, Inc. 165 West End Ave. New York, NY 10023 [email protected]).

    2. [S4] FAJF-Stern, Rabbi Malcolm Stern, (3rd edition updated and revised. n.c.: Genealogical Publishing Company for the American Jewish Archives, 1991.), PG. 75, 154 (Reliability: 3).
      QUAY 3

    3. [S3] AMLAJA, Judith E. Endelman, (unpublished manuscript), CHAPTER 5 PG 9 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S59] Green-Aryeh Family Tree, EMAIL 6 AUG 2010 ARYEH GREEN TO DAVID M. KLEIMAN (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S634] Green-Aryeh Family Tree, EMAIL 6 AUG 2010 ARYEH GREEN TO DAVID M. KLEIMAN (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S4] FAJF-Stern, Rabbi Malcolm Stern, (3rd edition updated and revised. n.c.: Genealogical Publishing Company for the American Jewish Archives, 1991.), PG. 75 FRANKS I (1) (Reliability: 3).
      QUAY 3

    7. [S7] Adeline Moses Loeb & Carl M. Loeb, Kathy L. Plotkin, Margaret Loeb Kempner, etal (Reliability: 3).

    8. [S333] Gutstein, Morris-Jews of Newport, Guststein, Morris, (New York: Bloch Publishing, 1936), PG. 46. (Reliability: 3).

    9. [S4] FAJF-Stern, Rabbi Malcolm Stern, (3rd edition updated and revised. n.c.: Genealogical Publishing Company for the American Jewish Archives, 1991.), PG. 154 LEVY I (1) (Reliability: 3).
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    10. [S4] FAJF-Stern, Rabbi Malcolm Stern, (3rd edition updated and revised. n.c.: Genealogical Publishing Company for the American Jewish Archives, 1991.), PG. 154 LEVY I (1) (Reliability: 3).

    11. [S33] One World Tree (sm), Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.), REBECCFA FRANKS & HENRY JOHNSON (Reliability: 1).

    12. [S294] Loeb Jewish Portraits Database, (http://www.loebjewishportraits.com/home.html), FRANKS, JACOB (Reliability: 3).


 

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