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Nonetheless, Franklin coordinated a multi-colony group known as the Associated Loyalists that waged guerrilla warfare in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. A correspondence between Franklin's collaborator, British General William Tryon , and Lord George Germain led to Franklin receiving official blessing for the operation in 1780.
Ralph William Franklin (born January 3, 1947) was the eleventh Bishop of Western New York in the Episcopal Church between 2011 and 2019. [1] He is Assisting Bishop of Long Island. Biography
R. William "Bill" Franklin was the eleventh bishop of Western New York. The Diocese elected him its eleventh Bishop at its 2010 convention. He was consecrated on April 30, 2011, at the university at Buffalo and retired on April 3, 2019. Franklin was born in Mississippi and had previously served in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
When British authorities were planning how to deal with their rebellious North American colonies in late 1775 and early 1776, they decided to send a large military expedition to occupy New York City. Two brothers, Admiral Lord Richard Howe and General William Howe, were given command of the naval and land aspects of the operation respectively ...
Fort Franklin was erected by the British in 1778, as part of a network of fortifications along the north shore of Long Island during the Revolutionary War, and named for Benjamin Franklin's Loyalist son, Sir William Franklin. [1] It was raided in 1779, resulting in the capture of many of the Loyalist garrison, but not the fort itself. [2]
William Franklin, recently released after serving 44 years in prison, could walk from a Philadelphia courtroom an exonerated man on Friday, or he may face another trial for a 1976 murder he says ...
Temple's father William Franklin was Governor of New Jersey and a prominent Loyalist. William Temple Franklin, called Temple, was born in 1760, [1] the extramarital (and only) son of William Franklin, notably an extramarital son as well, who fathered him while a law student in London. His mother is unknown, and the infant was placed in foster care.
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