On this rainy day, inside one home in the city, a quill touches parchment. A man’s hand scrawls these words in dark ink: “You have no doubt heard of a most horrid conspiracy lately discovered in this place.” A conspiracy. In New York City. The conspirators will “stop at nothing, however villainous and horrible, to accomplish their designs.” Their designs are against the Continental army, and not just against the army, but against its leader. The letter continues: “All our important men were to be seized or murdered.… General Washington was among the first that were to be sacrificed, and the
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