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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.
CHAPTER 13
“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.
CHAPTER 14
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.
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