First page of an important issue of The Connecticut Courant, and the Weekly Intelligencer, October 3, 1780, with an early report on Benedict Arnold's treasonous plot. The report begins in the middle column on the reverse, in part: "On Monday last his Excellency Gen. Washington, passed through this town on his way from Hartford, and his arrival at West Point was announced by the discharge of thirteen cannon, about eleven o'clock same day. About the time of his Excellency's arrival at the fort, a most horrid plot was discovered, the Infamous Gen. Arnold at the head of it; who, it is supposed, has been corrupted by the influence of British gold, having agreed to deliver up the fort at West Point for which purpose he drew a plan of all the works at the Point, and gave it to a spy, Major John Andre, Adjutant General of the British army." In fine condition, with a slightly rough left edge.
