Benedict Arnold was born a British subject, the second of six children of Benedict Arnold (1683–1761) and Hannah Waterman King in Norwich, Connecticut on 14 January 1741. He was named after his great-grandfather Benedict Arnold, an early governor of the Colony of Rhode Island, as were his father and grandfather and an older brother who died in infancy. Only he and his sister Hannah survived to adulthood; his other siblings succumbed to yellow fever in childhood. His siblings were, in order of birth: Benedict (15 August 173830 April 1739), Hannah (9 December 174211 August 1803), Mary (4 June 174510 September 1753), Absolom (4 April 174722 July 1750), and Elizabeth (19 November 174929 September 1755). Arnold was a descendant of John Lothropp through his maternal grandmother, an ancestor of six presidents.