1 Charles Lee, the second in cominaml in tli* Continent.al Army, IihiI not, tlien, liiiil liis wt'll-deviscJ " P?>i)i " before (ipneral Howe; (ieiionil Saniuol IL Piirsons Imil not yet coinmenceJ the siipplv of information, ctnicerning projected military movements, etc., thnmgh Squire ■•Heron," to Sir Henry Clinton ; Israel Putnam had not yet led Robert R. Livinj^ton to "question" "his very fidelity ;" and Benedict Arnold, maddened by wrongs imposed on him, had not yet connnenced his correspondence with .lolin .\ndr6.

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