Family and Slavery
Fraunces and his first wife, Mary Carlile, had no children. She presumably died in New York City about 1756.
He married his second wife, Elizabeth Dally, in New York City on November 30, 1757. They had seven children: Andrew Gautier Fraunces, Elizabeth Fraunces Thomason, Catherine Fraunces Smock, Sophia Fraunces Gomez, Sarah Fraunces Campbell, Samuel M. Fraunces, and Hannah Louisa Fraunces Kelly. Andrew G. Fraunces became a clerk in the Department of the Treasury, and published a pamphlet denouncing Alexander Hamilton for his financial dealings. Some of the other children ran hotels or boardinghouses. Samuel M. Fraunces took over operation of the Tun Tavern, and was executor of his father's Estate.
Fraunces employed servants and held slaves. In 1778, he advertised the sale of a 14-year-old male slave. The 1790 United States Census listed him as a free white male, with four free white women and one slave in his household.
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