Background
Duché was born in Philadelphia, the son of Anthony Duché (d 1762), a French Huguenot who came with his wife to America in the same ship as William Penn in about 1700.
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He was appointed a colonel of the militia. He served as mayor of Philadelphia from 1761 to 1762. Duché married Mary Spence (d June 5, 1747) on January 13, 1733-1734.
He was the father of Jacob Duché, chaplain to Continental Congress.
He died in Lambeth, England, in 1788.
