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Stephen A. Douglas

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Benedict Arnold

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Stephen A. Douglas — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 160 
  • Father:
  • William Arnold 
  • Mother:
  • Christian Peak   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Dec 1615 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ilchester, Somerset, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Jun 1678 
  • Death Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Burial Date:
  • 20 Jun 1678 
  • Burial Location:
  • Governor Arnold Burying Ground, Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Damaris Westcott
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Dec 1640 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Rhode Island 
  • Children:
  
  

  Benedict Arnold

  Caleb Arnold (Ahnentafel No:80 )

  Damaris Arnold

  Oliver Arnold

  Godsgift Arnold

  Freelove Arnold

  • Notes: 
  • Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

• Sources for Benedict Arnold

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Benedict Arnold (m. 1640), pp. 1-5.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/30/2013).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1969, Vol. 123, p. 34.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1879, Vol. 33, p. 428, 436.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1941, Vol. 18, p. 145.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 88.
  • ⁷ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Waterman Family: Vol. I, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts, New Haven, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman (1939), 124.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Benedict Arnold (governor)", (accessed 03/30/2013).
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Stukeley Wescott", (accessed 03/30/2013).