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The World of Rebecca Franks

Stony Point Battlefield State Historic Site

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A bookshelf filled with old-looking volumes
  • Free
  • Stony Point Battlefield State Historic Site
    44 Battlefield Road
    Stony Point, New York 10980
  • 1:30 PM

Site Interpreter Joanne Stein-Kohler has studied the Jewish experience in America in the years leading up to and after the American Revolution, through the lens of Rebecca Franks, the "Jewish Belle" of Philadelphia who married the British officer that lost the battle of Stony Point.