Much is being written and read about Norwich's Benedict Arnold. However, historians are taking a harder look at his second wife, Peggy Shippen. She was born on June 11, 1760, in Philadelphia, the ...

I was wondering if you would address the Shippen family. I have been watching AMC’s “TURN: Washington’s Spies,” regarding the Revolutionary period. Peggy Shippen married Benedict Arnold.

2012-08-27T07:02:14-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a0b/307254-m.jpgMark Jacob and Stephen Case recount the role that Philadelphia socialite Peggy Shippen (1760 ...

TREACHEROUS BEAUTY: PEGGY SHIPPEN, THE WOMAN BEHIND BENEDICT ARNOLD ... of their marriage is that while Peggy was from a wealthy Philadelphia family with loyalist sympathies, her husband ...