as with all the homes in the Strawberry Mansion part of Fairmount Park, this grand home had many owners
David Franks, a loyalist merchant, owned it when the mansion hosted many Tory balls, including the Meschianza, given in honor of the departing English general Howe
his sharp witted daughter, Rebecca, the belle of these grand parties, settled in Bath, England having married a British officer ...she lost a son in the Battle of Waterloo