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SCOUT· 29%47m·2025-03-04·HistoryBFW Revisited: The Poison Plot: Adultery & Murder in Colonial Newport
Ben Franklin's World
In 1738, a cooper named Benedict Arnold petitioned the Rhode Island General Assembly for a divorce from his wife Mary Ward Arnold. Benedict claimed that Mary had taken a lover and together they had attempted to murder him with poison. How did this story of love, divorce, and attempted murder unfold? What does it…
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