Peggy Shippen

Benedict Arnold is famous for betraying his country–but it was his wife who made the treason possible.

Starring: Susan Yeagley as Peggy Shippen and Andy Richter as Benedict Arnold. Also featuring: Luke Millington-Drake, Jim O’Heir, Matt Gourley, and Roman Mars.

 

Show notes:

John Andre sketch of Peggy Shippen

Source List:

American Battlefield Trust, Peggy Shippen, 10 Facts: Benedict Arnold and Peggy Shippen, Benedict Arnold

History.com, Benedict Arnold

New York Historical Society, Life Story: Margaret “Peggy” Shippen Arnold

National Endowment for the Humanities, Love and the Revolution

Massachusetts Historical Society, Letters from John Adams to Abigail Adams

NPS.gov, Benedict Arnold

History.com, Why Benedict Arnold Tried to Capture Quebec

The George Washington Presidential Library, Joseph Reed

Medium.com, The Highest-paid Spy in the American Revolution

Brobeck, Stephen. “Revolutionary Change in Colonial Philadelphia: The Brief Life of the Proprietary Gentry.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 3, 1976, pp. 410–34. JSTOR

Benedict Arnold, Patriot and Traitor by Willard Sterne Randall, ©1990 by Willard Sterne Randall, 2001 Dorset Press

Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married, Nancy Rubin Stuart, ©2013 by Nancy Rubin Stuart, Beacon Press