Ancestry of
Benedict Arnold

(1683–c1761)

Benedict Arnold

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Benedict Arnold 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Turner   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Aug 1683 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1761 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
  • Notes: 
  • After the treasonous act of his son, the grave of Benedict Arnold, and that of an infant son Benedict, were removed by an outraged angry mob from the Old Norwichtown Cemetery.

• Marriages for Benedict Arnold

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  • Spouse:
  • Patience Coggeshall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Jan 1705
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island

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  • Spouse:
  • Hannah Waterman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Nov 1733
  • Marriage Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut

• Sources for Benedict Arnold

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1969, Vol. 123, p. 34.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1879, Vol. 33, p. 436.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1880, Vol. 34, p. 196.
  • ⁴ Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, p. 153, Marriage record for Benedick Arnold and Hannah King.
  • ⁵ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, p. 33, Birth record for Benedict Arnold.
  • ⁶ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, p. 2289, Marriage record for Benedict Arnold and Patience Coggeshall.
  • ⁷ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Waterman Family: Vol. I, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts, New Haven, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman (1939), 123-124.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Benedict Arnold", (accessed 03/30/2013).
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Hannah Arnold", (accessed 03/30/2013).