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Historical Sites related to the Life and Career of Benedict Arnold


  1. Military Governor of Philadelphia

Gideon Olmsted Grave

Grave: Center Cemetery, 944 Main St, East Hartford, CT

Gideon Olmsted was an Connecticut privateer during the Revolution. He and several other Americans were prisoners aboard the British armed sloop Active when they overcame the crew and took the ship as a prize. As they sailed it to an American port, a Pennsylvania privateer escorted them into Delaware Bay, then filed with the Admiralty court that the ship was their prize. Olmsted and his men disputed the case, which dragged on for decades. Benedict Arnold, military governor of Philadelphia at the time, attempted to use his influence to help Olsmsted, his fellow Connecticutter. Joseph Reed and other Pennsylvania officials saw this as undue interference which was delaying justice. It became one of the charges they leveled against Arnold.
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This is the rear of the monument when approaching from the Main St entrance
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This is the rear of the monument when approaching from the Main St entrance

  • Small sign at the grave
  • The setting of Olmsted's grave
  • Closer view
  • Gideon Olmsted's gravestone
  • On this map of the cemetery, Gideon Olsmsted's grave is #14. While there, see also grave #27, that of Rev. Samuel Spring, Jr, the son of the chaplain on Arnold's March through Maine to Quebec. Click on the photo to enlarge.
  • Small sign at Rev. Spring, Jr's grave
  • This is the rear of the monument when approaching from the Main St entrance
  • Close up of Spring's name: 1792-1877
  • Spring's wife's entry, next to his
  • This is the view of the monument as one approaches from the Main St entrance. The Spring names are on the back.
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