tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post3585458076304843980..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Did Benedict Arnold’s Widow Die in Uxbridge?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-65014701707435114112012-01-11T15:07:51.258-05:002012-01-11T15:07:51.258-05:00It also has parallels with some claims about Eliza...It also has parallels with some claims about Elizabeth Loring and Margaret Gage, said to have betrayed their husbands and/or their country and to have died alone and cast off. Except they didn’t.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-91488310016629520492012-01-11T12:32:51.722-05:002012-01-11T12:32:51.722-05:00Possibly, but there might be a bit more than that....Possibly, but there might be a bit more than that. <br /><br />Putting aside also ideas of mistaken identity or sloppy research, that John F. Watson thought it credible that Peggy Shippen would forsake her family and decided fate to run back to her country, losing everything to die in obscurity in Uxbridge, MA, sounds like something out of Edward Everett Hale's short story, "The Man Without a Country". In Hale's story, the protagonist Philip Nolan makes a rash decision as a young man, renouncing the USA, and spends the rest of his life paying for it. To his dying day, Nolan regrets losing the United States of America as his homeland, and would have been willing to suffer any misery to become an American again. (One might say the backwater of Uxbridge would qualify as such for a putative returnee, who'd been bred in Philadelphia wealth...). Perhaps Hale was also trodding on a general theme not so unfamiliar, when he wrote his morality tale for Civil War audiences? I also wonder how Watson's claim that Peggy Shippen Arnold returned to America and died there was received by the public?rfullernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-27212511285759912772012-01-10T15:16:08.384-05:002012-01-10T15:16:08.384-05:00We also seem to like ironic stories. I don’t know ...We also seem to like ironic stories. I don’t know if that’s this culture in particular or humans in general.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-61006149578632961472012-01-10T14:11:43.479-05:002012-01-10T14:11:43.479-05:00I've heard this tale about Peggy Shippen Arnol...I've heard this tale about Peggy Shippen Arnold returning to America treated as truth, too. The thought that patriotism trumps treason and love makes an irresistible tale for some.rfullernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-91714427617122272562012-01-09T13:30:46.768-05:002012-01-09T13:30:46.768-05:00And with good reason!And with good reason!J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-13448411239392334122012-01-09T05:22:36.654-05:002012-01-09T05:22:36.654-05:00How strange, St Mary's Church in Battersea see...How strange, St Mary's Church in Battersea seems to be under the impression that both the general and his lady are buried there:<br /><br />http://home.clara.net/pkennington/VirtualTour/windows_modern.htm#ArnoldThomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16411800077003227112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-5576273033234462322012-01-08T17:15:45.936-05:002012-01-08T17:15:45.936-05:00This "CSI: Uxbridge" investigation is ve...This "CSI: Uxbridge" investigation is very interesting! Can't wait for tomorrow's installment!John L. Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14827783825431694038noreply@blogger.com