Notable Cousin · via the maternal line
1741–1801 · Continental Army general whose 1780 plot to surrender West Point to the British made him the most infamous traitor in American history. His treason exposed, he fled to the British, fought against his former country, and died in exile in London — his name a byword for betrayal.
Relationship
Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold V is the 4th cousin, 7 times removed of John, Perry, and Patrick Long.
Through Stukely Westcott (1592–1677), founder of Providence. Arnold descends from Stukely’s daughter Damaris Westcott; the family descends from Stukely’s son Jeremiah Westcott. The kinship is a matter of record, not endorsement — the archive documents it as it documents every other line.
Stukely Westcott (1592–1677) — founder of Providence and Warwick; the single shared ancestor connecting Benedict Arnold to the family. This is the single shared ancestor that connects Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold V to John, Perry, and Patrick. FamilySearch PID: 9HZW-SXJ.
Both lines descending from the most recent common ancestor, Stukely Westcott. The family’s line is the maternal Plantagenet descent documented in full on the Plantagenet Descent page; Research-in-Progress markers flag generations not yet enumerated. Click any PID to open the FamilySearch record.
VERIFIED on the shared anchor, Stukely Westcott (9HZW-SXJ), and on the family’s own line from Jeremiah Westcott through the Westcott → Peckham → Harrison → Winter → Swift → Perry chain, all enumerated on the Plantagenet Descent page. The Arnold-side descent from Stukely’s daughter Damaris Westcott is documented in the FamilySearch relationship walk but its intermediate generations are not enumerated here, and no identifiers have been invented to fill them. The “4th cousin, 7 times removed” label is the FamilySearch relationship-walk figure, carried verbatim (Rule #87).