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About the Authors
Mark Jacob, deputy metro editor at the Chicago Tribune, was part of the team that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. He is co-author of the newspaper’s “10 Things You Might Not Know” feature. He has co-written four other books. Jacob’s articles have been published in Library Quarterly, Chicago magazine, and Chicago History magazine. His short fiction has appeared in the literary magazines Other Voices, Pikestaff Forum, Samsara, and Minnesota Review. He has served as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Medill Graduate School of Journalism.
Stephen H. Case is managing director and general counsel of Emerald Development Managers LP, which provides equity capital for project-finance transactions. From 2009 to 2011, he also was chairman of the board of Motors Liquidation Company, the non-government-owned remnant of General Motors Corporation. Case served for fourteen years on the boards of trustees of Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital. He has served as secretary of the board of trustees of Glimmerglass Opera Company near Cooperstown, New York, and is a trustee of the American Revolution Center in Philadelphia. From 1975 to 2004 he was a partner in the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell. Case has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. To satisfy his personal curiosity, Case has made himself an expert in the Peggy Shippen story, reading all available histories that examine her story and tracking down Peggy’s letters at various repositories of historical manuscript.
Index
Italicized page numbers indicate illustrations.
All entries are hyperlinked. Page numbers refer to the printed book.
Active (ship), 80, 89
African Methodist Episcopal Church, 5
Allen, Ethan, 34, 62
Allen, Lieutenant, 153, 155, 156
Allen, Richard, 5
American Preceptor (Bingham), 14
Amherst, Jeffery, 195–96
André, John
background, 29–30
in British-occupied New York, 98
British tributes and honors, 191, 198
burial, 186
capture and detainment, 150–55, 165
as Clinton aide, 96–97
confession letters to Washington, 153–55, 161
conspiracy and plan development, 102–4
conspiracy code names, 101, 107, 135
conspiracy contact and negotiation, 92–93, 99–100
conspiracy information transfer, 101–5, 102–12, 110–11, 130, 134–35, 173–74
conspiracy meeting with Arnold, 135–36, 141, 142–43, 144–45
conspiracy payment negotiations, 107–10, 126, 144
conspiracy post-meeting events, 144–48
descriptions, 27, 27, 29, 96–97, 182
drawings by, 28
Franklin home looting, 52
health issues, 99
homosexuality speculation, 96–97
keepsakes given by, 52–53, 228
military enlistment and career, 31, 34–36, 38–39, 63, 95–96, 120–21
parties planned by, 45–52
plundering restitution, 99
secret service assignment, 99–100
self-portraits of, 184
social life in England, 30–31
social life in New York, 97
social life in Philadelphia, 29, 30–31, 37, 39, 42, 57, 98–99
surrender and captivity, 36–38
theater troupes of, 41–42, 99
trial and execution, 181–87, 184
anti-Catholic sentiments, 178
Arnold, Benedict
affair and illegitimate children, 204
at André monument, 198–99
André’s execution and response of, 186
André trade for, 182–83
backg
round, 58–59, 61
British government pension, 214
British military career, 177–78, 191, 193
Canadian land grants, 218
Canadian residence, 201–2, 203, 207–8
Caribbean capture and escape, 215–16
charges and court-martial, 85–88, 90, 116–17
conspiracy code names, 101, 104, 105–6, 135–36
conspiracy payment negotiations, 107–10, 126, 129, 144, 179–80, 213–14
conspiracy plots (see conspiracy plots of Benedict Arnold)
Continental Army military career, 34–35, 44, 61–69
Continental Army salary and reimbursement issues, 73, 119–20
death and burial, 219
DeBlois courtship, 67, 70
description, 60, 72
dueling incident, 210–14
effigies of, 171–72, 173, 208
escape, 156–57, 163
family history, 57–58
Fort Wilson Riot participation theories, 116
health and injuries, 69–70, 73, 106, 192, 218–19
kidnapping of, 190–91
London exile and residences, 194–99, 201, 208–9, 217
Matlack disagreements, 78–79
Mount Pleasant estate purchase, 89
New York residences, 180
Philadelphia residences, 73, 89, 116, 120
political loyalties, 61
post-escape letters written by, 162–64
privateering business partnerships, 218, 224
profiteering and raiding, 73–74, 79–81, 137, 191–92, 193
property confiscation and sales, 172–73
rebel capture plans for, 192
recruitment letters written by, 178–79
Reed relationship and disputes, 74, 78–81, 190
reputation, 193, 197, 199, 207–8
Robinson correspondence, 130
Shippen courtship and marriage, 71–72, 83–85, 89–90, 133
as Shippen family houseguest, 5, 61
trading and shipping businesses, 201–2, 203, 205, 207
West Point forts name after, 122
