Contents
Foreword by William Pencak
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. David Franks, Arrested for Treason
2. Family, Friends, and Associates
3. Indian Affairs, Family Growth, and Supplying the Army
4. Commercial Adventures
5. Plumsted and Franks, Agents for the Contractors
6. General Jeffrey Amherst and Colonel Henry Bouquet
7. Major General Thomas Gage
8. Franks, Inglis and Barkly, Agents for the Contractors
9. Levy and Franks and Land Speculation Companies
10. A Time of Transition
11. Working Both Sides of the Street
12. War and Financial Turmoil in Philadelphia
13. The Revenge of the Radicals
14. A Time of Trials
15. Exiles
16. The Final Chapter
Appendix A Letters to the Editor
Appendix B Questions of Death and Burial
Appendix C “Dear Mrs. Cad”: A Revolutionary War Letter of Rebecca Franks
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Mark Abbott Stern is a retired engineer and amateur historian. He has devoted the past eleven years to studying the life of David Franks.
“Mark Abbott Stern’s well-written and extremely well-researched
biography of Philadelphia merchant David Franks (1720–1793) ranks
among the best works on early American Jews. It is also the finest
study I know that clarifies the complicated story of army
contracting during the French and Indian War and the bureaucratic
intricacies of caring for prisoners of war during the American
Revolution.”—William A. Pencak, The Pennsylvania State
University
“In this gracefully written book, Mark Abbott Stern tells the story
of a Jewish man, his Christian family, and his adopted city of
Philadelphia during the era that led to American independence.
David Franks: Colonial Merchant is the sweeping and illuminating
chronicle of a businessman’s engagement with history, the grand
intersection of personal temperament with war, westward expansion,
and social assimilation. Demonstrating remarkable archival
scholarship, Stern writes with skill, sympathy, and mastery about a
man in his times.”—Edith B. Gelles, Stanford University
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