Defiant Brides (35 page)

25
. HK to LK, September 17, 1792, HKP.

26
. Drake,
Life and Correspondence
, 108–9.

27
.
Warren-Adams Letters
, 2: 315.

28
. Ibid., 316.

29
.
Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker
, 190.

30
. Ibid., 193.

31
. HK to GW, September 18, 1793, GWP.

32
. LK to HK, October 5, 1793, HKP.

33
. LK to HK, November 1, 1793, HKP.

34
. HK to LK, November 5, 1793, HKP.

35
. HK to HJ, May 10, 1794, HKP.

36
. HK to General Anthony Wayne, December 5, 1794, HKP

37
. Sarah Lyons Flucker Beaumez to LK, March 17, 1793, HKP.

38
. HJK to HK, March 31, 1794, HKP.

39
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 459.

40
. Ibid.

41
. Ibid., 460.

42
. Ibid., 461.

43
. Ibid., 462.

44
.
Evening Mail
(London), June 29, 1792.

45
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 24: 462.

46
. Ibid.

47
. Randall,
Benedict Arnold
, 606.

48
. BA to HC, October 17, 1792, CP.

49
. BA to JB, February 10, 1794, F1–13, BAF.

50
. Talleyrand,
Memoirs
, 174–75.

51
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 464.

52
. Ibid.

53
. Ibid., 465.

54
. Ibid.

55
. Ibid.

“An Irresistible but Invisible Force”

1
. Henry Knox Papers, Collection 166, Box 21/1, CMHS.

2
. HJ to HK, May 8, 1794, HKP.

3
. La Rochefoucauld,
Travels through the United States
, 1, 421.

4
. Callahan,
Henry Knox
, 348.

5
. Ibid., 349.

6
. Brooks,
Henry Knox
, 240.

7
. Callahan,
Henry Knox
, 350.

8
. Brooks,
Henry Knox
, 265.

9
. Callahan,
Henry Knox
, 351.

10
. Brooks,
Henry Knox
, 241.

11
. La Rochefoucauld,
Travels through the United States
, 449–50.

12
. Ibid., 449.

13
. Callahan,
Henry Knox
, 351.

14
. Ibid., 352.

15
. Eaton,
History of Thomaston
, 231.

16
.
Columbian Centinel
(Boston), April 27, 1796.

17
. Daniel Cobb to HK, December 13, 1796, HKP.

18
. HK to GW, January 13, 1797, HKP.

19
. Eaton,
History of Thomaston
, 211.

20
. Thatcher, “Reminiscences,” 11–12, NSDAR.

21
. HJ to HK, August 7, 1795, HKP.

22
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 45.

23
. Madison,
Memoirs and Letters
, 39–40.

24
. Eaton,
History of Thomaston
, 221.

25
. Ely,
Unmasked Nabob
, 5.

26
. Taylor,
Liberty Men
, 165.

27
. HJ to HK, March 22, 1795, HKP.

28
. MA to JB, December 5, 1795, F1-21, BAF.

29
. Arnold,
Life of Benedict Arnold
, 389.

30
. MA to JB, December 5, 1795, F1-4, BAF.

31
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 467.

32
. BA to JB, February 20, 1796, F1–24, BAF.

33
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 466.

34
. Ibid.

35
. Ibid., 467–68.

36
. Brandt,
Man in the Mirror
, 272.

37
. Taylor,
Some New Light
, 26.

38
. Goodfriend, “Widowhood of Margaret Shippen Arnold,” 229.

39
. Ibid.

40
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 472.

41
. Goodfriend, “Widowhood of Margaret Shippen Arnold,” 229.

42
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 472.

43
. Taylor,
Some New Light
, 26.

“I Do Not Suffer My Spirits to Overcome Me”

1
. HK to LK, August 13, 1797, HKP.

2
. HK to LK, November 20, 1801, HKP.

3
. HK to LK, May 8, 1802, HKP.

4
. LK to HK, November 12, 1800, HKP.

5
. LK to HK, April 4, 1804, HKP.

6
. HK to Clement Biddle, March 3, 1798, HKP.

7
. Brooks,
Henry Knox
, 265.

8
. Ibid., 263.

9
. Ibid., 264.

10
. Ibid.

11
. HK to David Cobb, March 22, 1800, HKP.

12
. HK to LK, November 20, 1801, HKP.

13
. HK to LK, November 13, 1801, HKP.

14
. HK to LK, November 20, 1801, HKP.

15
. Ibid.

16
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 53.

17
. HJK to LK, March 28, 1805, HKP.

18
. HK to Samuel Breck, January 13, 1806, HKP.

19
. Thatcher, “Reminiscences,” 5, NSDAR.

20
. HK to Wales & Beale, October 20, 1806, HKP.

21
. Thatcher, “Reminiscences,” 19, NSDAR.

22
. Callahan,
Henry Knox
, 380.

23
. Ibid., 381;
Columbian Centinel
, October 29, 1806.

24
. Thacher,
Military Journal
, 483–84.

25
. Flyleaf, Account Book (1796), Henry Knox Papers, 1789–1797, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

26
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 57.

27
. Caroline Knox Swan to LK, June 17, 1808, accession 4098(p), NSDAR.

28
. Ibid.

29
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 49.

30
. Caroline Knox Swan to unnamed friend, August 16, 1822, vol. 2, penned in Knox’s letterbook, January 8, 1774–March 1775, MHS.

31
. HK to LK, March 17, 1806, HKP.

32
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 472.

33
. Goodfriend, “Widowhood of Margaret Shippen Arnold,” 225.

34
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 473.

35
. Wilson,
Benedict Arnold
, 230–32.

36
. Ibid.

37
. Ibid., 475.

38
. Taylor,
Some New Light
, 63.

39
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 477.

40
. Ibid., 482.

41
. Ibid., 480.

42
. Goodfriend, “Widowhood of Margaret Shippen Arnold,” 238.

43
. Ibid., 225.

44
. Ibid., 239.

45
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 482.

46
. Ibid.

47
. Ibid., 483.

48
. Taylor,
Some New Light
, 64, 66.

49
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 486.

50
. Ibid., 490.

51
. Ibid.

52
. Ibid., 491.

53
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 495.

The Brides’ Legacies

1
. Chastellux,
Travels in North-America
, 112.

2
. Marshall,
Life of George Washington
, 213–14.

3
. Sullivan,
Familiar Letters
, 85.

4
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 91.

5
. Ellett,
Women of the American Revolution
, 87.

6
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 87.

7
. Ibid., 88.

8
. Ellett, “Sketch of Mrs. Henry Knox,” 110.

9
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 90.

10
. Ibid., 87–88.

11
. Ibid., 56.

12
. Hawthorne,
American Notebooks
, 23.

13
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 101.

14
. Ibid.

15
. Taylor,
Some New Light
, 408.

16
. Ibid., 413.

17
. Ibid., 415.

18
. Ibid., 414.

19
. Ibid., 417.

20
. Ibid., 48.

21
. Van Doren,
Secret History
, 386.

Abbatt, William.
The Crisis of the Revolution: Being the Story of Arnold and André.
New York: William Abbatt, 1897.

Adams, John.
Adams Family Papers.
Volume 2. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1961–

———.
Diary and Autobiography of John Adams.
Volumes 2, 3, and 4. L. H. Butterfield, Leonard C. Faber, and Wendell D. Garrett, eds. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1961.

———.
Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife.
Volume 1. Charles Adams, ed. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1841.

Adams Family Correspondence
. Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 8. L. H. Butterfield, Leonard C. Faber, and Wendell D. Garrett, eds. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1963–

Amory, Martha Babcock.
The
Domestic and Artistic Life of John Singleton Copley, R.A.: With Notices of His Works, and Reminiscences of His Son, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1882.

André, John. “Particulars of the Mischianza.”
Gentleman’s Magazine
48 (July 1778): 353–57.

Armes, Ethel, ed.
Nancy Shippen, Her Journal Book: The International Romance of a Young Lady of Fashion of Colonial Philadelphia with Letters to Her and about Her.
New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968 (orig. 1935).

Arnold, Benedict, and Francis Suydam Hoffman.
Proceedings of a General Court Martial for the Trial of Major General Arnold
. New York: Privately printed, 1865.

Arnold, Isaac Newton.
The Life of Benedict Arnold: His Patriotism and His Treason.
Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1880.

Atlantic (New Brunswick) Advocate
, March 1963.

Benedict Arnold Fonds. New Brunswick Museum, Saint John.

Benedict Arnold-Munson Hayt Papers, Library Archives, University of New Brunswick.

“Benedict Arnold’s Oath of Allegiance,” May 30, 1778. National Archives, War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, 1709–1939. Washington, D.C.

Berkin, Carol.
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

Bigelow, John, ed.
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself.
Volume 3. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1854.

Bischoff, Henry. “A Resourceful Woman in Revolutionary Bergen County: Theodosia Prevost at the Hermitage.” In
The Revolutionary War in Bergen County: The Times that Tried Men’s Souls
, Carol Karels, ed. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2007.

The Bland Papers
. Volume 1. Charles Campbell, ed. Petersburg, VA: Edmund & Julian C. Ruffin, 1840.

Bobrick, Benson.
Angels in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Boswell, James.
The Life
of Dr. Samuel Johnson.
Volume 4. New York: John R. Anderson & Co., 1889.

Boylan, Brian Richard.
Benedict Arnold: The Dark Eagle.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1973.

Boyle, Joseph Lee.
Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army,
December 19, 1777–June 19, 1778
. Volume 1. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2000.

Brandt, Clare.
The Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold.
New York: Random House, 1994.

Brooks, Noah.
Henry Knox, a Soldier of the Revolution: Major-General in the Continental Army, Washington’s Chief of Artillery, First Secretary of War Under the Constitution, Founder of the Society of the Cincinnati; 1750-1806.
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1900.

Burd, Edward. “Notes and Queries.”
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
40 (1916).

Burnett, Edmund C.
Letters of Members of the Continental Congress.
Volume 5. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1931.

Cadou, Carol Borchert.
The
George Washington Collection: Fine and Decorative Arts at Mount Vernon.
Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 2006.

Callahan, North.
Henry Knox, General Washington’s General.
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1958.

———.
Peggy.
New York: Cornwall Books, 1983.

Carbone, Gerald M.
Nathanael Greene:
A Biography of the American Revolution.
New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2008.

Chadwick, Bruce.
George Washington’s War: The Forging of a Revolutionary Leader and the American Presidency
. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2004.

Chastellux, Francois Jean, Marquis de.
An Essay on Public Happiness.
Volume 1. London: T. Cadell in the Strand, 1774.

———.
Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780–81–82
. New York: White, Gallaher & White, 1827.

Chesterfield, Lord, and Philip Dormer Stanhope.
Letters, Sentences and Maxims.
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1888.