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BENEDICT ARNOLD’S TREASON – The Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 14 October 1780.
Alexander Hamilton’s detailed report on the capture of John André and the treason of Benedict Arnold. Over a full column of the second page contains the first half of a letter from Alexander Hamilton, then aide-de-camp to General Washington, to John Laurens in Philadelphia. It gives an insider’s knowledge of the machinations of André and Arnold in the days leading up to the discovery. Of André’s capture itself, he writes, “At this critical period, his presence of mind forsook him—instead of producing his pass, which would have extricated him from our parties, and could have done him no harm with his own, he asked the militia men if they were of the upper or lower party—distinctive appel[l]ations known among the enemy’s refugee corps.” Neither Hamilton nor his correspondent is named in this printing but the letter is published in full in Hamilton’s Papers, vol. 2, p. 460-470.
Four pages, folio (410 x 260mm). (Mild toning, small marginal hole.)
Alexander Hamilton’s detailed report on the capture of John André and the treason of Benedict Arnold. Over a full column of the second page contains the first half of a letter from Alexander Hamilton, then aide-de-camp to General Washington, to John Laurens in Philadelphia. It gives an insider’s knowledge of the machinations of André and Arnold in the days leading up to the discovery. Of André’s capture itself, he writes, “At this critical period, his presence of mind forsook him—instead of producing his pass, which would have extricated him from our parties, and could have done him no harm with his own, he asked the militia men if they were of the upper or lower party—distinctive appel[l]ations known among the enemy’s refugee corps.” Neither Hamilton nor his correspondent is named in this printing but the letter is published in full in Hamilton’s Papers, vol. 2, p. 460-470.
Four pages, folio (410 x 260mm). (Mild toning, small marginal hole.)