Jonathan Arnold

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Early life

Jonathan Arnold was born in Gloucester, Rhode IslandTemplate:Efn on December 3, 1741 (Old Style December 14), the son of Josiah Arnold and Amy (Phillips) Arnold.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He trained for a career in medicine and practiced as a physician in Providence.Template:Sfn In 1774, he became a charter member of the Providence Grenadiers militia unit, and until 1776 he commanded a company with the rank of captain.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1776, Arnold was elected to the Rhode Island General Assembly, where he authored the May Act that repealed the requirement for government officials and militia officers to swear an oath of allegiance to England.Template:Sfn

At the start of the American Revolution, Arnold joined the Continental Army as a surgeon.Template:Sfn During the war, he was head of the military hospital in Providence.Template:Sfn He was elected as a Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation in 1782, and served until 1783.Template:Sfn While he was a member of Congress, the body voted in secret to arrest Luke Knowlton and Samuel Wells of Brattleboro in the Vermont Republic on suspicion of communicating with the British in Canada.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> They fled before they could be detained, but returned to Brattleboro after the end of the Revolution.Template:Sfn Arnold was accused of warning Knowlton and Wells prior to their arrests, which he denied, but fellow members of Congress including James Madison did not believe his denial.Template:Sfn

Later life

File:Jonathan Arnold (Confederation Congress member).jpg
1898 Richard Creifelds portrait based on original miniature

In 1786, Arnold moved to Winchester, New Hampshire, where he continued to practice medicine.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> He subsequently became proprietor and the first settler of St. Johnsbury, Vermont,Template:Sfn and served as St. Johnsbury's first town clerk.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> While living in Vermont, Arnold also obtained charters for the towns of Bestbury (now Lyndon), Burke, and Billymead (now Sutton).<ref name="Durfee"/>Template:Efn

After settling in Vermont, Arnold served on the governor's council from 1790 to 1793.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He was a judge of the Orange County court beginning in 1792, and he remained on the bench until his death.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> While living in Rhode Island, Arnold's family had been given a slave, Ruth Farrow, as a gift.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Arnold was a member of the Providence Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and freed Farrow, who continued to live with and work for members of the Arnold family until her death in 1841.Template:Sfn

Death and burial

Arnold died in St. Johnsbury on February 1, 1793.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He was initially buried in the Arnold family plot in the town cemetery.Template:Sfn When the cemetery's land was appropriated for a courthouse in 1856, Arnold was reburied at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in St. Johnsbury.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Arnold Park in St. Johnsbury is located near the site of Arnold's former home, and is named for him.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Family

In 1763, Arnold married Marry Burr (1743–1781).Template:Sfn His second wife was Alice Crawford (1757–1790), whom he married in 1782.Template:Sfn After the death of his second wife, in 1792 Arnold married Cynthia Hastings Ladd (1763–1838).Template:Sfn

Arnold was the father of 11 children:Template:Sfn

  • Amy Arnold Deuel (1764–1843)
  • Amaziah Arnold (1766–1767)
  • Josias Lyndon Arnold (1768–1796)
  • Polly Burr Arnold (1770–1772)
  • William C. Arnold (1773–1813)
  • Sarah (Sally) Arnold Burrill (1777–1814)
  • Abigail Arnold Dow (1780–1824)
  • John Crawford Arnold (1784–1784)
  • Freelove Crawford Arnold (1788–1789)
  • Freelove Crawford Arnold Davis (1790–1848)
  • Lemuel Hastings Arnold (1792–1852)

Arnold's son Lemuel Hastings Arnold served in the United States House of Representatives and as Governor of Rhode Island.Template:Sfn His grandson Noah Davis served in the United States House of Representatives.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> His grandson Richard Arnold was a career officer in the United States Army who served as a brigadier general of volunteers in the Union Army during the American Civil War and attained the rank of major general of both volunteers and the regular army by brevet.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His great-great-grandson Theodore Francis Green served as Rhode Island's governor and as a United States Senator.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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