Ann Arnold

Audited 22 Jul 2026, REVISED 30 Jul 2026 - this note supersedes the 22 Jul text, which was stored truncated at exactly 256 characters and broke off mid-sentence. Junction #1. RELATIONSHIPS PROVEN, DATES WRONG. Documented: she is the daughter of Benjamin Arnold of Presquile, who was himself one of the four "distressed orphans" of Anthony Arnold - a leader of Bacon's Rebellion, hanged for treason 15 Mar 1677 at West Point, New Kent, with his estates confiscated. Benjamin recovered land (1,725 acres at Rickahock per the 1688 petition, later exchanged with the Chickahominy for King William land) and built the seat at the Mattaponi bend that he named Presquile; his Arnold's Ferry became Temple's Ferry after this marriage. She is the wife of Col. Joseph Temple. TREE DATES WERE WRONG on two points, both corrected 25 Jul 2026. (1) The 1672 birth at "Pres Quile" is impossible and belongs to a DIFFERENT Ann Arnold. Her father Benjamin was an orphaned child in 1677, so he cannot have had a daughter born 1672; Presquile did not exist until he established and named it after 1677; and a woman born 1672 could not bear the Temple children of 1732 to 1742, which is what generated the audit's "mother at 60 to 70" findings. The 1672 Ann is almost certainly Anthony Arnold's own daughter - Benjamin's sister, and so this Ann's AUNT - collapsed into her niece. Birth reset to abt 1705, Virginia, estimated from the children's births. (2) "Anne Bogardus (1672-1690)" as her mother is a junk graft: Bogardus is the Dutch New Netherland family with no documented place in this tidewater Virginia line, and those dates make her age 0 at Ann's claimed birth. Checked 30 Jul 2026: the mother linked on this record is already [3321] "Ann", surname unknown, wife of Benjamin Arnold - Bogardus was never attached here, and remains attached only as Benjamin's wife in the half-siblings' family (Rachael, William, Benjamin Jr), where the dates are impossible and which is a separate open finding. KEPT: death 11 Dec 1781, an age of about 76, which is plausible. Memo: ancestry/temple-arnold-liston-junction.md---- ADDENDUM 5 Aug 2026 (night): HER PARENTAGE IS ASSERTED IN PRINT, AND DELIBERATELY NOT CITED FROM IT. ----The Baltimore Sun's genealogy column of 1 April 1906, p. 14, by Jane Griffith Keys - the source behind the 1918 Diboll fan chart, both read on the images 5 Aug 2026 (register M1-M5) - states: "Joseph Temple married Ann, daughter of Benjamin Arnal. They resided at Presqueisle, their estate in King William county, where he died." That agrees with this record's existing parent family, whose father is [525] Benjamin Arnold.⛔ NO CITATION HAS BEEN ATTACHED, AND THE REASON IS DELIBERATE. [525] is a generation-9 direct ancestor carrying ZERO citations, so a citation there would move the Temple branch coverage - by exactly one point, 51.6% to 52.6%. That is not worth banking a compiler who is measurably wrong about attribution: the same column gives her husband a 1774 Committee of Safety seat and Order of the Cincinnati membership that Heitman and the Society's own 1905 roll show belong to a Benjamin Temple and were impossible for a Joseph. Owen ruled 5 Aug 2026: record the provenance, cite nothing to the direct line yet. The branch percentage is meant to measure EVIDENCED ancestry, and leaving her father honestly uncited is the more truthful state.⭐ WHAT KEYS DOES ADD, and it is genuinely new to this record: the estate name PRESQUEISLE is given as the couple's residence and the place of his death, independently of Harris; and the column reports the Temple hunting cup as being in 1906 "in the possession of Miss Gr[i]nnan, a descendant of Col. Benjamin Temple, of King William county" - while the 1918 chart's own wheel records "Robertine Temple married Robert A. Grinnan of Orange Co Va". A surviving family object with a traceable holder.⛔ A RECORD-LOSS FACT THAT GOVERNS EVERY FUTURE SEARCH ON THIS FAMILY: King William County's clerk's office burned 17 January 1885 and, per the Library of Virginia, "most records were destroyed by fire in 1885" - all pre-1885 county court records lost except seventeen will books and a few deed books. A search that fails to find one of these people in King William has discovered a fact about 1885, NOT a fact about the person. Do not write such a result up as a negative about anybody.