James Robertson Arnold
(1781-1854)
BIRTH
August 28, 1781
PLACE
DEATH
December 27, 1854
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Peggy Shippen Arnold
(1760-1804)
BROTHER
William Finch Arnold
(1794-c. 1846)
CHILDREN
Benedict Arnold
(1741-1801)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF THE CRESCENT RECIPIENT, KNIGHT OF THE ROYAL HANOVERIAN GUELPHIC ORDER RECIPIENT
James Robertson Arnold (1781–1854), a son of Benedict Arnold and Peggy Shippen, became a British Royal Engineers officer. He served in Egypt and was wounded at Surinam in 1804. His later work included Bermuda’s dockyard fortifications, built with enslaved and free Black labour, and service in Halifax. Appointed an aide to William IV in 1830, he rose to lieutenant general. Sources disagree about his birth date and whether he was born in New York or Philadelphia.
EARLY LIFE
James Robertson Arnold was born on Aug 28, 1781. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for James Robertson Arnold is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. James Robertson Arnold died on Dec 27, 1854. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
James Robertson Arnold died on Dec 27, 1854. James Robertson Arnold, a son of Benedict Arnold and Peggy Shippen, became a British Royal Engineers officer. He served in Egypt and was wounded at Surinam in 1804. His later work included Bermuda’s dockyard fortifications, built with enslaved and free Black labour, and service in Halifax. Appointed an aide to William IV in 1830, he rose to lieutenant general. Sources disagree about his birth date and whether he was born in New York or Philadelphia. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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