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Acknowledgments

I must first express my appreciation for Marian O’Keefe, local historian of Norwich, with whom I discussed the original idea for this book and who gave me help with sources on Benedict Arnold. I also want to thank Jim Campbell, Ed Surato, and Frances Skelton at the New Haven Museum’s Whitney Library; Karen DePauw, Sierra Dixon, and Diana Ross McCain at the Connecticut Historical Society; and Alice Dickenson, Tricia Royston, and Marilyn Davis at the New London County Historical Society. Jeannie Sherman and Mel Smith were particularly helpful in guiding me through the extensive Connecticut State Library Archives.

I also want to thank Mary Witkowski and Elizabeth Van Tuyl at the Bridgeport History Center and Hamden Public Library’s Phil Scott for his tireless work at the interlibrary loan on my behalf. The University of Bridgeport’s Magnus Wahlstrom Library held a surprising number of published primary sources, as did many other Connecticut libraries. The Library of Congress, the New York Historical Society, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania also held many important documents.

I am particularly grateful for the help from Parker Smathers, David and Trena Lehman, Michelle Calero, Alexis Dias, Katelyn Wall, Christopher Collier, and Thomas Juliusburger, as well as Carolyn Smith, Helen Vergason, Evan Andriopoulos, Edward Baker, Walter Powell, and other historians who have kept the burning of New London and Battle of Groton Heights alive in recent years. Also, thanks to Hans van der Geissen and Stephen Healey of the University of Bridgeport for suggesting and granting a sabbatical during which I completed the project.

And special gratitude as always to my wife, Amy Nawrocki, who taught me the meaning of home.