[ARNOLD, BENEDICT, family]. ARNOLD, MARGARET SHIPPEN, Wife. Autograph letter signed to Edward Burd, St. John [Newfoundland], 13 April 1791, 4 pages, 4to. "Peggy" Shippen, daughter of a Philadelphia loyalist, who had joined her traitor husband in exile, writes on domestic matters, including a lawsuit, noting that "Our General Assembly...passed an Act for taking evidences in the States," should the suit continue. "The...arbitrary Acts of the Government here are causing this country to depopulate very fast..."The poor people fly to their native places in the States, for refuge; their reception there, I fear, is very doubtful; at least, if I may judge from my own. We are in pleasing expectation of returning this summer to England, a country less hostile to our interest, and much better calculated to promote our happiness." RARE -- ARNOLD, BENEDICT, Sr., Father. Autograph document signed, Newport, 9 June 1725, oblong 4to, a receipt for "2 hund. wgt. of Iron" purchased from Samuel Leonard of Taunton -- ARNOLD, HANNAH WATERMAN KING, Mother. Autograph letter signed, Norwich, 30 August 1753, 1 page, folio, writing of the family's recent attack of "distemper", "Hannah [Arnold's sister] is ...weaker and weaker -- hath not got up 1 hour this 7 days part and her distemper increasing. What God is about to do with us I know not", she closes exhorting her son to turn to Christ -- ARNOLD, SOPHIA MATILDA, Daughter. Autograph letter signed to Edward Burd, London, 6 October 1807, 3 pages, 4to, discussing family matters and her recent illness contracted on the Isle of Guernsey -- FOGG, JOHN S.H., Family friend. Autograph letter signed to W.R. Benjamin, Boston, 26 May 1891, 2 pages, 8vo, this note originally accompanied a letter by Sophia Matilda Arnold, he gives a detailed account of the geneaology of the Shippen family. Together 5 items. (5)