The other Republican paper of primary importance was the "Aurora General Advertiser", founded by Ben Franklin's grandson and heir, Benjamin Franklin Bache, on October 2, 1790. The "Aurora", published from Franklin Court in Philadelphia, was the most strident newspaper of its time, attacking John Adams' anti-democratic policies on a daily basis. No paper is thought to have given Adams more trouble than the "Aurora". His wife, Abigail, wrote frequent letters to her sister and others decrying what she considered the slander spewing forth from the "Aurora". Jefferson credited the "Aurora" with averting a disastrous war with France, and laying the groundwork for his own election. Following Bache's death (the result of his staying in Philadelphia during a yellow fever epidemic, while he was awaiting trial under the Sedition Act), William Duane, an immigrant from Ireland, led the paper until 1822 (and married Bache's widow, following the death of his own wife in the same Yellow Fever epidemic). Like Freneau, Bache and Duane were involved in a daily back-and-forth with the Federalist editors, especially Fenno and Cobbett.