Authors: Nancy Rubin Stuart
25
. HK to LK, September 17, 1792, HKP.
26
. Drake,
Life and Correspondence
, 108–9.
27
.
Warren-Adams Letters
, 2: 315.
28
. Ibid., 316.
29
.
Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker
, 190.
30
. Ibid., 193.
31
. HK to GW, September 18, 1793, GWP.
32
. LK to HK, October 5, 1793, HKP.
33
. LK to HK, November 1, 1793, HKP.
34
. HK to LK, November 5, 1793, HKP.
35
. HK to HJ, May 10, 1794, HKP.
36
. HK to General Anthony Wayne, December 5, 1794, HKP
37
. Sarah Lyons Flucker Beaumez to LK, March 17, 1793, HKP.
38
. HJK to HK, March 31, 1794, HKP.
39
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 459.
40
. Ibid.
41
. Ibid., 460.
42
. Ibid., 461.
43
. Ibid., 462.
44
.
Evening Mail
(London), June 29, 1792.
45
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 24: 462.
46
. Ibid.
47
. Randall,
Benedict Arnold
, 606.
48
. BA to HC, October 17, 1792, CP.
49
. BA to JB, February 10, 1794, F1–13, BAF.
50
. Talleyrand,
Memoirs
, 174–75.
51
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 464.
52
. Ibid.
53
. Ibid., 465.
54
. Ibid.
55
. Ibid.
“An Irresistible but Invisible Force”
1
. Henry Knox Papers, Collection 166, Box 21/1, CMHS.
2
. HJ to HK, May 8, 1794, HKP.
3
. La Rochefoucauld,
Travels through the United States
, 1, 421.
4
. Callahan,
Henry Knox
, 348.
5
. Ibid., 349.
6
. Brooks,
Henry Knox
, 240.
7
. Callahan,
Henry Knox
, 350.
8
. Brooks,
Henry Knox
, 265.
9
. Callahan,
Henry Knox
, 351.
10
. Brooks,
Henry Knox
, 241.
11
. La Rochefoucauld,
Travels through the United States
, 449–50.
12
. Ibid., 449.
13
. Callahan,
Henry Knox
, 351.
14
. Ibid., 352.
15
. Eaton,
History of Thomaston
, 231.
16
.
Columbian Centinel
(Boston), April 27, 1796.
17
. Daniel Cobb to HK, December 13, 1796, HKP.
18
. HK to GW, January 13, 1797, HKP.
19
. Eaton,
History of Thomaston
, 211.
20
. Thatcher, “Reminiscences,” 11–12, NSDAR.
21
. HJ to HK, August 7, 1795, HKP.
22
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 45.
23
. Madison,
Memoirs and Letters
, 39–40.
24
. Eaton,
History of Thomaston
, 221.
25
. Ely,
Unmasked Nabob
, 5.
26
. Taylor,
Liberty Men
, 165.
27
. HJ to HK, March 22, 1795, HKP.
28
. MA to JB, December 5, 1795, F1-21, BAF.
29
. Arnold,
Life of Benedict Arnold
, 389.
30
. MA to JB, December 5, 1795, F1-4, BAF.
31
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 467.
32
. BA to JB, February 20, 1796, F1–24, BAF.
33
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 466.
34
. Ibid.
35
. Ibid., 467–68.
36
. Brandt,
Man in the Mirror
, 272.
37
. Taylor,
Some New Light
, 26.
38
. Goodfriend, “Widowhood of Margaret Shippen Arnold,” 229.
39
. Ibid.
40
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 472.
41
. Goodfriend, “Widowhood of Margaret Shippen Arnold,” 229.
42
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 472.
43
. Taylor,
Some New Light
, 26.
“I Do Not Suffer My Spirits to Overcome Me”
1
. HK to LK, August 13, 1797, HKP.
2
. HK to LK, November 20, 1801, HKP.
3
. HK to LK, May 8, 1802, HKP.
4
. LK to HK, November 12, 1800, HKP.
5
. LK to HK, April 4, 1804, HKP.
6
. HK to Clement Biddle, March 3, 1798, HKP.
7
. Brooks,
Henry Knox
, 265.
8
. Ibid., 263.
9
. Ibid., 264.
10
. Ibid.
11
. HK to David Cobb, March 22, 1800, HKP.
12
. HK to LK, November 20, 1801, HKP.
13
. HK to LK, November 13, 1801, HKP.
14
. HK to LK, November 20, 1801, HKP.
15
. Ibid.
16
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 53.
17
. HJK to LK, March 28, 1805, HKP.
18
. HK to Samuel Breck, January 13, 1806, HKP.
19
. Thatcher, “Reminiscences,” 5, NSDAR.
20
. HK to Wales & Beale, October 20, 1806, HKP.
21
. Thatcher, “Reminiscences,” 19, NSDAR.
22
. Callahan,
Henry Knox
, 380.
23
. Ibid., 381;
Columbian Centinel
, October 29, 1806.
24
. Thacher,
Military Journal
, 483–84.
25
. Flyleaf, Account Book (1796), Henry Knox Papers, 1789–1797, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
26
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 57.
27
. Caroline Knox Swan to LK, June 17, 1808, accession 4098(p), NSDAR.
28
. Ibid.
29
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 49.
30
. Caroline Knox Swan to unnamed friend, August 16, 1822, vol. 2, penned in Knox’s letterbook, January 8, 1774–March 1775, MHS.
31
. HK to LK, March 17, 1806, HKP.
32
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 472.
33
. Goodfriend, “Widowhood of Margaret Shippen Arnold,” 225.
34
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 473.
35
. Wilson,
Benedict Arnold
, 230–32.
36
. Ibid.
37
. Ibid., 475.
38
. Taylor,
Some New Light
, 63.
39
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 477.
40
. Ibid., 482.
41
. Ibid., 480.
42
. Goodfriend, “Widowhood of Margaret Shippen Arnold,” 238.
43
. Ibid., 225.
44
. Ibid., 239.
45
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 482.
46
. Ibid.
47
. Ibid., 483.
48
. Taylor,
Some New Light
, 64, 66.
49
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 486.
50
. Ibid., 490.
51
. Ibid.
52
. Ibid., 491.
53
. Walker, “Life of Margaret Shippen,” 25: 495.
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1
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Travels in North-America
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2
. Marshall,
Life of George Washington
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3
. Sullivan,
Familiar Letters
, 85.
4
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 91.
5
. Ellett,
Women of the American Revolution
, 87.
6
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 87.
7
. Ibid., 88.
8
. Ellett, “Sketch of Mrs. Henry Knox,” 110.
9
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 90.
10
. Ibid., 87–88.
11
. Ibid., 56.
12
. Hawthorne,
American Notebooks
, 23.
13
. Griffiths,
Major General Henry Knox
, 101.
14
. Ibid.
15
. Taylor,
Some New Light
, 408.
16
. Ibid., 413.
17
. Ibid., 415.
18
. Ibid., 414.
19
. Ibid., 417.
20
. Ibid., 48.
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