Defiant Brides by Nancy Rubin Stuart

outbursts by, 128, 129, 194; contracts infectious hepatitis, 58; courtship and wedding, 17, 20; delivers stillborn child, 187; departure from Connecticut, 29–30; dependence on Henry, 21, 125, 168–169, 193; entertains Rochefoucauld, 181–182; estrangement from family, 20; extended stay at Mount Vernon, 127–128; fears for Henry’s safety, 22–23, 172; flight to Watertown, 20–21; grief at deaths of children, 59, 142–143, 167, 183–184, 187; grief at Henry’s death, 197, 198; home in Newburgh, New York, 141; homes in Boston, 147, 149, 151; illness and death of, 200; inaccurate biographies of, 205–206; increasing girth of, 160–161; indulgence of son Hal, 169–170; insistence on elite lifestyle, 186; jolted by news of Arnold’s treason, 107–108; lavish entertainments by, 141, 160, 161, 167–168, 180, 184–185; leaves New York, 26–27; matchmaking for Caroline, 199; in Middlebrook, New Jersey, 55–56; obsession with cards and chess, 168, 184–185; odd hair styles of, 108, 117, 160; orders cemetery removed, 184; pregnancies, 21, 56, 60, 72, 74, 121, 124, 143, 167; quarrels with Henry, 25, 27, 28, 32, 151–152, 194–195; re-burial in Thomaston, 208; religious differences from Henry, 194; resented for self-importance, 161, 181, 182; reunions with Henry, 25–26, 55, 147; sale of parents’ home, 31; separations from Henry, 21, 22–23, 25, 124; as social leader, 74, 159–160; at Valley Forge, 35, 37; “variolation” against smallpox, 31–32
    Knox, Marcus Bingham (son), 173, 183
    Knox, Marcus Camillus (son), 130, 140
    Knox, Marcus Camillus II (son), 145, 167
    Knox, William (Henry’s brother), 19, 26, 28, 37, 50, 117; death of, 182; help to Henry in business, 144–145, 150, 151; Lucy’s dependence on, 25; relays news of Lucy’s family, 27
    Knox, William (Henry’s father), 19
    Knox and Lincoln Railroad, 208
    Knox Memorial Association, 208
    Knyphausen, Wilhelm von, 9
    Lafayette, Marquis de, 14, 39, 146, 180; Arnold’s treachery and, 95, 97, 99; at the Chesapeake, 123, 125; on William Knox’s illness, 150
    Lamb, John, 89
    Lauderdale, Lord (James Maitland), 174–175
    Laurence, John, 113–114
    Laurens, Henry, 57
    Ledyard, William, 126
    Lee, Henry “Lighthorse,” 12
    Lee, Francis Lightfoot (Peggy’s uncle), 12
    Lee, Charles, 21
    Lee, Henry, 60
    Lee, Richard Henry (Peggy’s uncle), 12
    Letters, Sentences and Maxims
(decorum book), 61
    Levy, Hannah, 48
    Life of George Washington
(Marshall), 205
    Lincoln, Benjamin, 125, 129, 130, 143, 159
    Lindner, Vincent, 211
    Livingston, Robert R., 43, 77, 80
    Livingston Manor, 124
    Logan, Sarah “Sally,” 7, 8, 39–40
    London Chronicle
, 14, 133
    London Times
, 191
    Lord Middlebrook
(ship), 139, 154
    Lord Sheffield
(ship), 154
    Lord Spencer
(ship), 190
    Loring, Elizabeth, 8
    Louis-Joseph Xavier François, dauphin of France, 141
    Loyalist Claims Commission, 138
    Loyalists: contempt for Arnold, 137, 138; Flucker family as, 20; friends of Arnolds in London, 133; Judge Shippen as, 11, 12; in New Brunswick, 154; “Tory rides,” 26
    Mabie, Casparus, 112
    Mabie’s Tavern, 112, 115, 116
    Madison, Dolley, 185
    Maitland, James (Lord Lauderdale), 174–175
    Marshall, John, 205
    Marshall, Christopher, 7
    Martin, Joseph Plumb, 33, 128
    Martin, Joseph, 74
    Masters-Penn House, 43, 63, 71, 72, 75, 167
    Matlack, Timothy, 71
    Matlack, William, 47, 48, 71
    McKean, Sally, 167
    McKonkey’s Ferry, 29
    McKoy, (Mrs.), 8
    Mease, James, 43
    Memoirs of Aaron Burr
(Davis), 108
    Middleton, Nathaniel, 191
    Military Journal of the American Revolution
(Thacher), 198
    military school: established by Knox, 55–56
    “millinery letter,” 68, 109
    Mischianza, 4; disapproval of, 14, 44; festivities described, 9–10; Peggy’s appearance at, 10–11
    Mitchell, John, 48, 71, 72
    “Monk, Gustavus.”
See
Arnold, Benedict
    Monmouth, Battle of, 83
    Monroe, James, 83
    Montgomery, Richard, 23
    Monticello, 179
    Montpelier, 183, 199; building of, 171, 179–180; constant entertaining at, 184–185;