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Colonel Jacob Duche (1708–1788) was a mayor of Philadelphia in the colonial province of Pennsylvania.
Duche was born in Philadelphia, the son of Anthony Duche (d. 1762), a French Huguenot who came with his wife to America in the same ship as William Penn in about 1700. He was appointed a colonel of the militia. He served as mayor of Philadelphia from 1761 to 1762.
He was for many years a vestryman of Christ Church; when the congregation grew too large to be accommodated there, he headed the committee that oversaw the erection of its daughter church, St. Peter's.
Family
Duche married Mary Spence (d. June 5, 1747) on January 13, 1733-34. He later married a widow Bradley, nee Esther Duffield. He was the father of Jacob Duche, chaplain to Continental Congress. He died in Lambeth, England, in 1788.