(Bilah) Abigail Levy Franks (1696–1756) was born in England but lived in New York. She was married to merchant Jacob Franks and had nine children, including Naphtali Franks and Phila Franks. Many of her letters survive.
Resources:
- Hershkowitz, Leo; Meyer, Isidore S., eds. (1968). The Lee Max Friedman Collection of American Jewish Colonial Correspondence: Letters of the Franks Family, 1733–1748. American Jewish Historical Society.
- The Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks, 1733–1748. Yale University Press. 2004. ISBN 0300137788.
- Guide to the Papers of the Franks Family, 1711-1821 at AJHS, with hotlinks to online documents.
- Abigail Franks, JWA