Hannah White Arnett

Hannah White, born on January 15, 1733 in Bridgehampton, New York, Long Island, New York was the daughter of Sarah Howell and Silas White (ca. 1709–1742). On May 6, 1753, Hannah White married husband Isaac Arnett, born May 30, 1726, becoming Hannah White Arnett. Arnett had a daughter, Susan, who married Shepard Kollok. The Arnetts lived in Elizabethtown, now Elizabeth, New Jersey. Arnett and her husband were both Quakers, who generally were against war. Arnett, though, believed the war was important. ==American Revolution==

Charles Cornwallis, a British soldier, under General William Howe, drove George Washington out of New York and into New Jersey during the Capture of New York City of the New York and New Jersey campaign. The men refused the offer of amnesty. They agreed to be loyal patriots until independence was secured. ==Death==

Isaac died November 19, 1801 and Arnett died in Elizabethtown, New Jersey on January 10, 1823 She is buried in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, New Jersey. ==Legacy==

In 1876, Henrietta Holdich wrote about the account in the New York Observer. On July 13, 1890, after the Sons of the American Revolution refused to allow women to join their group, Mary Smith Lockwood published the story of Hannah White Arnett in The Washington Post, ending her piece with the question, "Where will the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution place Hannah Arnett?" Memorial A memorial "honoring the patriotic dead of many wars laid to rest in this hallowed ground especially a noble woman Hannah White Arnett" was erected in 1938 in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, New Jersey by the Boudinot Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Another marker on the wall of that cemetery, which is now illegible, read in part, "Near here rests Hannah White Arnett... Her patriotic words, uttered in the dark days of 1776, summoned discouraged men to keep Elizabethtown loyal to the cause of American independence." ==Notes==