Benedict Arnold was paid £6,315 for changing sides and died in debt; his widow paid the debts

Benedict Arnold asked General Henry Clinton for £20,000 if his plot to hand West Point to the British succeeded and £10,000 if it failed. Clinton offered at most £6,000 for failure. On 18 October 1780 Arnold received £6,000 plus £315 for expenses. His pay as a British brigadier was £650 a year, which fell to £225 half pay after 1783. His son Benedict Jr. got an army commission in 1780 and his younger brothers in 1781, each with half pay for life. On 17 March 1782 the King granted his wife Peggy Shippen £500 a year, and each of her children £80 a year. Arnold also received 13,400 acres of Crown land in Canada, which produced no immediate income. In 1785 he claimed £16,125 more from the Loyalist Claims commissioners, and he withdrew the claim in 1786. He died in London on 14 June 1801. Peggy put his debts at "upwards of £6,000". She sold furniture, moved to a smaller house and paid every debt she could trace. She died on 24 August 1804, aged 44. In 2026 there is no title or estate. The Crown pensions ended with the people they were paid to.