Benedict Arnold - so I don't know much about American history but I do know the name is associated with switching sides, right...in...the...middle...of...it ~~ oy!
General Arnold was an American officer with a long, distinguished career. Although not well liked, George Washington trusted him enough to give him command of West Point in August 1780 unaware that Arnold had made arrangements to surrender West Point to the British. But as luck would have it, the plot was discovered and Benedict Arnold went down in the history books as being synonymous with betrayal & treason.
Where do we fit in? There was a meeting set up between Maj Andre & Gen Arnold at a house owned by a Joshua Smith - a friend of Arnold's known to spy for both sides. Ensign Stephen Griffing was posted to guard Joshua Smith.
Stephen Griffing married Elizabeth Uhl and had a daughter named Hannah. Hannah married Levi Pawling. Jesse Howell married their daughter Julia Ann Pawling. Then their son Jesse married our Nellie Anges Kemp, the daughter of John Alexander Kemp & Rosella Manchester.
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Special to the New York Times
Gloucester City, NJ, Jan 8 - Jesse Howell, retired head of the advertising department of James Pyle & Sons, New York, died at his home here Saturday of pneumonia after an illness of two days. He was born in New York eighty-five years ago. He lived in Greenwich Village during his long residence in New York and was active in the affairs of the Jane Street Methodist Church. Over a long period, he served on various committees of the Five Points Mission. He leaves a widow, Nellie K; a son, Frank, and a son-in-law, the Rev Frank D Lawrence.
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Nellie died the following year.
Jesse & Nellie had 3 children - Howard Kemp Howell died at 3 mths; Arthur Kemp Howell married & had a son Arthur Jr; and their only daughter Nellie May Howell, married Rev Frank Duffell Lawrence, the son of Rev ananias Lawrence & Henrietta McKaig.
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Mrs May Howell Lawrence, wife of the Rev Frank D Lawrence recently appointed pastor to the Madison Street Methodist Episcopal Church, died yesterday afternoon in the Underwood Hospital, Woodbury, NJ, in her fifty-second year. Mrs Lawrence had been ill several weeks ago. She assisted her husband terminate their affairs at the St Paul Methodist Episcopal Church in Lancaster, Pa, where the Rev Lawrence was pastor for many years, although she had not fully recovered her health. Moving to Chester on March 29, Mrs Lawrence was forced to bed again, and her condition became critical. She was removed to the Underwood Hospital yesterday morning and died there late in the afternoon. The daughter of Mr and Mrs Jesse Howell of Gloucester, NJ, Mrs Lawrence was born and raised in the heart of New York City. She graduated from the New York Girls High School and Hunter College, New York, and taught in the public schools of Manhattan for one year. She gave up her teaching to marry the Rev Lawrence in 1907. A lineal descendant of Major Stephen Griffing who fought in the Revolutionary War, and who was guard of Joshua Smith, who made possible the secret meeting between Major Andre, the British spy, and the Revolutionary General Benedict Arnold, Mrs Lawrence came from the same ancestry as Mrs William C Sproul of this city. The Rev Frank D Lawrence who was assigned to the Madison Street Church by the Methodist Conference last month, was born in Clayton, NJ, the son of the Rev Ananias Lawrence of the New Jersey Conference. He is a graduate of Dickinson College. Surviving is her husband and her mother and father, Mr and Mrs Jesse Howell of Glouster, NJ. There are no children. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Sixth and Stevens Streets, Camden, NJ, where the Rev Lawrence was a former pastor. Interment will take place in the Harleigh Cemetery, in Camden. Six members of the Madison Street Church will act as pallbearers.
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The Rev Frank D Lawrence, a Methodist minister for more than 40 years, died Thursday at his home, 2201 St Paul Dr, Broomall. He was 75. Dr Lawrence was ordained in 1917. He served at many churches throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania. His last church was the Bethlehem Methodist Church at Thornton, Pa, from which he retired at the beginning of the year. Surviving is his wife, the former Lauretta Hobbs. Services will be at 2 pm, Monday, at Oliver H Bair's, 1820 Chestnut St.
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