The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1855-02-17
Benedict ArnoId,s Family.

son OI DeneQlcC AFhOlu ny MarpareL MS Vile,
daughter of Chief Justice Shippen, of Pennsyl-
vania. He entered the corps of Royal En-
gineers in 1897, and served more than half
century He married Virginia, daughter of
Bartlett Goodrich Esq, of the Isle of Wight,
and for his military services, was created
Knight of Hanover, was appointed aid de-camp
to William w., and was presented with cost
ly sword.
The above named officer was the oldest of
four children, which Arnold's second wife, Miss
Shipper of Philadelphia, bore him, viz JAS
Robertson, Edward, George and Sophia. His
first wife bore three sons, viz {: Benedict, Rich
ard and Henry. Benedict, the oldest, was an
officer of artillery in the British army, aud, it
is believed, was compelled to quit the service;
he died young in the West Indies. Henry en-
tered the Kings service after his fathers de-
fection, and was lieutenant of cavalry in the
Ameri, an Legion. lie accompanied his father
to st. John, and was employed in his business
He slept in the warehouse near the Lower Cove
in that city, and lodged there the night the
building burned. He lived afterwards at
Troy, New York, with his aunt Hannah, and
was engaged in mercantile pursuits. At sub
segment period he removed to Canada, where
he is now man of property. He received half
pay and grant of lands from the British gov
ernment. Richard:-In 1882 he was also a
lieutenant of cavalry in the American Legion,
commanded by his father In most every par
ticular his history is identical with that of his
brother Henry. Persons are still living at ST.
John, who resided there when Gen. Arnold's
store burned. The impression at the
moment, and still is, that the fire caused by
design, and for the purpose of defrauding
company in England, that had underwrittcn
upon the merchandise which Il contained, to
amount far exceeding its worth. These persons
differ to the fact, whether Arnold himself
was in st. John, absent in England, at the
time of the fire; and hence the degree Of blame
which may be attached to the two sons may be
uncertain. That both Henry and Richard slept
in the store on the night of the confagration,
and that neither could give satisfactory ac-
count of its cause seems, however, to be certain.
james Robertson, whose recent death is
mentioned above, was the only one of the four
children which the traitors second wife bore
him, tIa$ was born in America. At the time
of the treason he was child and had just
reached West Point from Philadelphia, with his
mother He entered the British army in 1913,
and rose to the rank of Colonel Of Engineers
He was stationed at Bermuda from 1916 to
1918, and from the last named year until 1923
was at Halifax, and the ommandng officer of
engineers in Nova Scotia and Brunswick:
While thus in command he was at st. J ohns
and going into the house built by his father,
in King street (Which is still stanaing;) he wept
like child. He was small man, his eyes
were of remarkable sharpness, and in features
bore a striking resemblance to his father. A
gentleman who has been in service with him,
and was intimately acquainted with him, speaks
of him in terms of high commendation, and re-
lates that he has often heard him express
strong desire to visit the United States. Since
the accession of Queen Victoria he has been
one of Her Majesty's aidsde-camp. In 1871
he was transferred from the engineer corps, and
appointed Major General, and Knight of the
Royal Hanoveran G uelphic Order.
Edward, the next sou, was some years ago in
banking house in England George in 1916,
was officer of dragons. Sophia, of her fate
nothing is known. 1t may he added, that the
first General Arnold's mother had six children
of whom he and his sister Hannah alone lived
to the years of maturity. This sister adhered
to her brother Benedict throughout his eventful
and gHiity career, and was true to him i'll the
darkest periods of his history. She died at
Montague, in Upper Canada, i'll 1903, and was
is uniformly stated, lady of excellent
qualities of character.
HAVE We + SWEDISH PRINCESS AMONG U.s.
The Fireside Journal Mass.) has made a grand
discovery-nothing less than second Bourbon
case-in which the lately deceased keeper Of
Long Island Light plays the principal part, and
is asserted to have lreen the son Of Gustavus
III, King of Sweden. We give the substan-
tial facts of the statement of the Freside:
Inc story, as we get lI-ahu we nave no
doubt of its substantial truths this: The late
Capt. Joseph Beck, so long known by our m ri
time folks keeper of the Long Island light
in our harbor, on his death-bed, last summer,
disclosed to his family that he WAS son of
Gustavus III. King Of Sweden aud younger
brother of that remarkable knight-errant of a
king, the late Gustavus Ill. An unknown per-
son, who had been seen at various times to re-
gard him with great interest, and who was
present at the time of his DEATH left in the next
European steamer for Sweden. Within short
time, the only daughter of Capt. Beck, a very