Peggy Shippen
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Margaret Shippen was the second wife of General Benedict Arnold. She has been described as "the highest-paid spy in the American Revolution".
Shippen, c. 1783-89
Chief Justice Edward Shippen of Pennsylvania, painted by Gilbert Stuart
Image of a coded letter: Peggy Shippen Arnold's handwriting is interspersed with coded writing in Benedict Arnold's hand; Arnold's writing would have been in invisible ink.
Edward Shippen IV
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Edward Shippen was an American lawyer, judge, government official, and prominent figure in colonial and post-revolutionary Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His fourth daughter, Margaret Shippen, was the se
Peggy Shippen
…borne seven children, five of whom survived infancy. Margaret Shippen was born July 11, 1760, in Philadelphia, the fourth and youngest daughter of Edward Shippen IV and Margaret Francis, the daughter of Tench Francis, Sr.; she was nicknamed "Peggy". She was born into a prominent Philadelphia family, which included…
Portrait of Edward Shippen IV, by Robert Feke, 1750.