Benedict Arnold's Will & Debt: Letters of Peggy Shippen Arnold

Benedict Arnold's Debt and Will (S1E2): In the previous episode of about Benedict Arnold, "Arnold's death", we read the letter from Peggy Shippen Arnold to her stepsons informing them of Benedict Arnold’s death. For the next few years, until shortly before her death, Philadelphia-born Peggy Shippen corresponded with her stepsons in Canada, which illuminated her thoughts and feelings as she struggled to come to terms with the loss of General Benedict Arnold. In these letters, she focuses on securing her financial and social position in England and ensuring the future well-being of her children. Let’s hear what Peggy Shippen Arnold had to say to her stepsons from July through December 1801, from her home on Gloucester Place, London.